In basic research, the use of the electron microscope has revealed to us the complex universe of the cell, the basic unit of life.

It was one of the great pleasures of my life to donate the entire sum of the Nobel Prize, in memory of my sister Ruth Blobel, to the restoration of Dresden.

In 1936, when I was born in the small Silesian village of Waltersdorf in the county of Sprottau in the then-eastern part of Germany, now part of Poland, the fine structure of the cell was still an enigma.

I was 8 years old in the spring of 1945 when my family fled Silesia to escape the Russian army. On our way, we passed through Dresden. A few days later, it was firebombed. The fire was so bright that night that one could read a newspaper from the light, though we were many kilometers away.

I held the generous, strong, beautiful hand of my first wife Cassie as ovarian cancer took her life much too soon.

Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.

For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.

The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.