A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run.

So 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.

I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be a physician. So, I'm a physician scientist.

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

A lot of science doesn't require big "ns" but if you're trying to understand something about human health and you're looking at interventions that are not going to be either killing you or making you live forever - they're going to have some tweaking on the outcome - you need big numbers or you don't have enough power.

The airman must possess absolutely untroubled nerves.

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