In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one.

One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.

When does life begin? When does the soul enter? That's a religious question. Science is not going to be able to help with that.

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.

I think history would say that medical research has, throughout many changes of parties, remained as one of the shining lights of bipartisan agreement, that people are concerned about health for themselves, for their families, for their constituents.

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

Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.