I'm basically a libertarian. I don't want to restrict anyone from doing anything unless it's going to harm me. I don't want [to] pass a law stopping ….

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientis….

Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people..

The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental dis….

Biology has at least 50 more interesting years..

The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers..

The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billio….

Knowing "why" (an idea) is more important than learning "what" (the fact)..

There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work..

Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.

A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either..

We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science..

It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant..

Never be the brightest person in the room..

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doc….

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple ….

If we don't play God, who will?.

People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great..

I recently went to my staircase at Clare College, Cambridge and there were women there! There have been a lot of convincing studies recently about th….

The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe..

One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural, and it was a lesson that my father passed o….