I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.
Francis CollinsThe human genome will not help us to understand the spiritual side of humankind, or to know who God is or what love is. The well-heeled couple who decide they want to use genetics to have a child that is a gifted musician may end up with a sullen adolescent who smokes marijuana and doesn't talk to them.
Francis CollinsEvolution, as a mechanism, can be and must be true. But that says nothing about the nature of its author. For those who believe in God, there are reasons now to be more in awe, not less.
Francis CollinsI'm a serious Christian. I take my faith seriously. I try to practice it every day of the week, not just on Sunday.
Francis CollinsA technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run.
Francis CollinsThere are 15 constants- the gravitational constant, various constants about the strong and weak nuclear force, etc.- that have precise values. If any one of those constants was off by even one part in a million, or in some cases, by one part in a million million, the universe could not have actually come to the point where we see it. Matter would not have been able to coalesce, there would have been no galaxy, stars, planets or people
Francis Collins