Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you're not misleading yourself, science is the way to do it.

Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.

Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.

In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one.

As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data.

I think history would say that medical research has, throughout many changes of parties, remained as one of the shining lights of bipartisan agreement, that people are concerned about health for themselves, for their families, for their constituents.

[Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all of science. I believe that reading our blueprints, cataloguing our own instruction book, will be judged by history as more significant than even splitting the atom or going to the moon.