Courtesy of Mario R. Capecchi
Part luck, part [ly being] resourceful, you had to get food by stealing. I became fairly good with it.... Once you are operating in a particular area, and your cover is blown, then you move on.
The easiest way is not even to think about it. The strengths are self-reliance. There are different ways of doing science. What we like to do [at this lab] is do it all ourselves.... To me, it's important to go into a biological problem and then develop [the] technology to answer that question. That is going back to being self-reliant, to finding your own food and surviving.
When you're on your own, you spend a lot of time thinking. To go from step A to step B, I can concentrate on something, it doesn't matter what is going on in the world around me. ...Science is sort of a ...
