As you kind of get over the anxiety about [science and evolution], it actually adds to your sense of awe about this amazing universe that we live in, it doesn't subtract from it at all.
Francis CollinsSo much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.
Francis CollinsWhen does life begin? When does the soul enter? That's a religious question. Science is not going to be able to help with that.
Francis CollinsI think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.
Francis CollinsThere are good reasons to believe in God, including the existence of mathematical principles and order in creation. They are positive reasons, based on knowledge, rather than default assumptions based on a temporary lack of knowledge.
Francis CollinsWhen a drug comes out [that's broadly prescribed] there are going to start to be a lot of people on it [in a million person cohort] and you might get therefore an early signal of something unexpected that hadn't come through in the clinical trials. And I'm sure [drug companies] would love it if, in fact, FDA, recognizing that, would say, OK, maybe you don't have to do your trial with 30,000 people because we're going to find out shortly after registration because we'll have a lot of people taking the drug and we'll be able to see what happened using PMI.
Francis Collins