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

God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.

The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. He can be worshipped in the cathedral or in the laboratory. His creation is majestic, awesome, intricate, and beautiful.

What wakes me up at night is this next generation and what's happening to them. And they're invariably excited about the science that they're doing, but invariably anxious about where there's a future.

Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.

C.S. Lewis had a big influence on me in this spiritual realm - this sort of sense of longing. A longing for a knowledge that is just outside of our reach, a knowledge for a spiritual connection.

I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.