It's us that's really amazing. As far as I can see, our concentration of different abilities in one species - there's nothing I can see that in this Darwinian evolution that could've done that. So it seems to be a miracle of some sort.

It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.

Well germ warfare of course exists. There have been on a small scale... There have been, of course, a few people who got killed with anthrax right here in Princeton.

Everything in my life was luck.

In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.

The world is just - it's wonderful when you look at all the detail. It's just amazing.