A lot of people think PMI is the genome project 2.0. No. This is about all the influences on disease - genetics is in there, but the environment is in there as well, health choices, behaviors, all the factors that are important, otherwise we're not doing what we promised we would do - which is in a holistic way look at how people stay healthy or how do they fall ill.
Francis CollinsWe give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.
Francis CollinsAs an atheist evolving to agnosticism, and seeking answers to whether or not belief in God is potentially rational, my life was turned upside down 35 years ago by reading C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity.
Francis CollinsFaith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.
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 Collins