There are two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different windows. The science window gives you a view of the world, and the religion window gives you a totally different view. You can't look at both of them at the same time, but they're both true.

Some of my friends like to keep science and religion together, but I certainly like to keep them separate.

I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.

To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then there's no point in pretending.

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

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

The glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove.