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.

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

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

The best diet is the one that can be sustained over the long term, combined with other healthful lifestyle behaviors.

I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me.

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

God decided to create a species with whom he could have fellowship. Who are we to say that evolution was a dumb way to do it? It was an incredibly elegant way to do it.