The book contains interviews with:

Werner Arber, Carleton D. Gajdusek, Sir Aaron Klug, Leon Lederman, Hubert Markl, László Rybach, M. S. Swaminathan,

Paul Berg, Géza Gordos, Norbert Kroó, László Lovász, Atta-Ur-Rahman, Béla Somfai, Shem O. Wandiga,

András Falus, Maurizio Iaccarino, István Láng, Jane Lubchenco, Sherwood Rowland, Imre Somody, Lewis Wolpert.

 The combination of some but not enough intelligence, plus considerable amounts of both ignorance and arrogance can easily lead to being badly wrong in full voice and, worse yet, with a considerable following... One of our responsibilities is to try very hard to help others to understand, and I think in general we scientists have failed badly in that of task.

Sherwood F. Rowland
Nobel Laureate Chemistry
and Earth System Science,
University of California, Irvine

 I like my scientific colleagues, but I would not trust them to buy me a tie, or a picture, and not even to make ethical decisions for me.

Lewis Wolpert
Cell-Biologist,
University College London

 ...and it was all due to this one species, the sea star, which is a top predator. With the sea star there is a very rich community, without it it is depopulated. It changed the ideas about bio-diversity and about the consequences of the loss of even one species from a system - which can have a dramatic influence.

Jane Lubchenco
Marine-Biologist,
Oregon State University

 I bike a lot; I am lucky because Cambridge, where I have been living since 1949, is really flat. And my workplace is not too far from my home. So when I got the Nobel Prize I bought a bike.

Sir Aaron Klug
President of the Royal Society,
Professor of the Laboratory of
Molecular Biology in Cambridge,
Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry