It is my belief that the basic knowledge that we're providing to the world will have a profound impact on the human condition and the treatments for disease and our view of our place on the biological continuum.

I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that we have one life on this planet. We have one chance to live it and to contribute to the future of society and the future of life. The only "afterlife" is what other people remember of you.

Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made.

Most drugs work on only about a third of the population, they do no damage to another third, and the final third can have negative consequences.

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

We have learned nothing from the genome.