I believe that we have been doing this not primarily to achieve riches or even honour, but rather because we were interested in the work, enjoyed doing it and felt very strongly that it was worthwhile.

Frederick Sanger OM CH CBE FRS (/ˈsæŋər/) (born 13 August 1918 Rendcomb) is a British biochemist who was twice the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry the only person to have been so. In 1980 Walter Gilbert and Sanger shared half of the chemistry prize "for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids".