Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sym….

[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and….

I wanted to see if I could write a good book..

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting..

DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush..

I have a son, who is a... not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great fear of then, of all parents….

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated..

The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls..

Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often ve….

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

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 ….

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

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….

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….

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

Biology has at least 50 more interesting years..

Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people..

Never be the brightest person in the room..

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….

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….

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 ….