Susumu Tonegawa Quotes

I see myself as a scientist who is interested in what's going on inside of us.

My father was an engineer working for a textile company that had several factories scattered in rural towns in the southern part of Japan.

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

Independent of what is happening around you in the outside world, humans constantly have internal activity in the brain.

Humans are very imaginative animals.

My scientific career has developed on three continents: Asia, Europe and North America.

In the early Seventies, the technology for purifying a specific eukaryotic mRNA was just becoming available.

The brain is probably the most mysterious subject there is.

Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.

We found out that, contrary to what many people thought, in the immune system, genes can change during the life cycle of the individual.