People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.

I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.

Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.

I thought instead of burying myself under dirt, I'd bury myself under water so everybody could see that you're there.

Young people can be disruptive and screw up classes. But even if they are being a pain in the arse it's a cry for help - they don't feel like they are being listened to.

I have always been interested - indeed, waylaid - by the leading edges of technology, even during my Ph.D. years when I pioneered (but did not publish) agarose gel electrophoresis for RNA fractionation. Also, much later, I was instrumental in showing that Green Fluorescent Protein and RNAi could be made to work in mammalian cells.