All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.

I'm a serious Christian. I take my faith seriously. I try to practice it every day of the week, not just on Sunday.

Sometimes you develop a passion for something because of some personal experience.

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

What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?

There are 15 constants- the gravitational constant, various constants about the strong and weak nuclear force, etc.- that have precise values. If any one of those constants was off by even one part in a million, or in some cases, by one part in a million million, the universe could not have actually come to the point where we see it. Matter would not have been able to coalesce, there would have been no galaxy, stars, planets or people

Science is... a powerful way, indeed - to study the natural world. Science is not particularly effective... in making commentary about the supernatural world. Both worlds, for me, are quite real and quite important. They are investigated in different ways. They coexist. They illuminate each other.