I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.

The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as well as humans. It is not important that we didn't actually finish the human sequence yet.

We do not know how much of the environmental change is due to human activities and how much [is due] to long-term natural processes over which we have no control.

The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines.

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.

It's amazing how much progress there's been in China, and also India. Those are the places that really matter - they're half of the world's population. They're the places where things are enormously better now than they were 50 years ago. And I don't see anything that's going to stop that.

I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated. It wastes a tremendous amount of time - especially for women, it's particularly badly timed. If they're doing a Ph.D., they have a conflict between raising a family or finishing the degree, which is just at the worst time - between the ages of 25 to 30 or whatever it is. It ruins the five years of their lives.