I wish there would be more movies about scientists..

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….

I have been much blessed..

I don't think we are here for anything. We're just products of evolution. You can say, "Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don't think there'….

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

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers..

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering co….

I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced..

You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient..

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

Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged..

One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural..

If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your sec….

A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid..

There are many people of color who are very talented..

(The National Cancer Program is) a bunch of (obscenity)..

The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand..

I am thrilled to see my genome..

Our goal should be to understand our differences..

As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all..

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