I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
I know and value what it means to wake up and be alive and to share my story. I'm so blessed to be here and to be able to talk about it.
It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.