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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 as well as pretty.

You move forward through knowledge. You prevail through knowledge. I love the word 'prevail.' Prevail!

Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.

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

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

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

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

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 disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.

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

I have been much blessed.

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 second one.

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

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

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.

To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologise unreservedly.

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

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

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

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

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

There are many people of color who are very talented.

I am thrilled to see my genome.

The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.

Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.

It's so difficult writing about living people.

I would only once have the opportunity to let my scientific career encompass a path from the double helix to the three billion steps of the human genome.

If we could honestly promise young couples that we knew how to give them offspring with superior character, why should we assume they would decline? Common sense tells us that if scientists find ways to greatly improve human capabilities, there will no stopping the public from happily seizing them.

By the age of 11, I was no longer going to Sunday Mass, and going on birdwatching walks with my father. So early on, I heard of Charles Darwin. I guess, you know, he was the big hero. And, you know, you understand life as it now exists through evolution.

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