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

Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.

Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

That's what I learned from World War II. Things are always more complicated than most people believe.

The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language. ... The new technology of microchips and computer software is learned much faster than the old technology of coal and iron. It took three generations of misery for the older industrial countries to master the technology of coal and iron. The new industrial countries of East Asia, South Korea, and Singapore and Taiwan, mastered the new technology and made the jump from poverty to wealth in a single generation.

And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this amazingly small amount of data.

Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.