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

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.

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.

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.

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

I am thrilled to see my genome.

I have been much blessed.

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

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

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.

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.

Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.

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.

The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.

There are many people of color who are very talented.