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"I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it."
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"Nature has two powers: Her own physical power and the spiritual power of her beauty!"

"No matter how much territory the wolf conquers the lion will still rule the jungle."

"A man can be knocked down a thousand times and can still get back up, but when he puts himself down he has defeated himself more than a million others could have done."

"When darkness comes, stars shine. When storms come, plants flourish. When adversity comes, champions triumph."

"Modern humans are taught from the childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are embodiment of glory and children of immortal strength. Eventually a society full of bravehearts will rise."

"We are not as frail as the strings would make us believe."
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"If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far."

"I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while."

"I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21."

"So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us."

"If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk."

"As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it."

"If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that."
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