I have many times thought I did the wrong thing, but the reason was not to be a medical doctor – it was just to have the information. But then, maybe I was wrong, I dont know. – Lennart Nilsson
I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before – just to discover something together. This is always my dream. – Lennart Nilsson
Thats the new way – with computers, computers, computers. Thats the way we can have the cell survive and get some new information in high resolution. We started about five years ago and, today, I think we have reached the target. – Lennart Nilsson
And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but its the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers. – Lennart Nilsson
On bad days, I think Id like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, Yeah, right, Im going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school. No. No. – Tama Janowitz