If scientists don't play God, who will?

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.

Knowing "why" (an idea) is more important than learning "what" (the fact).