Paul Berg

With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.