If scientists don't play God, who will?

I'm basically a libertarian. I don't want to restrict anyone from doing anything unless it's going to harm me. I don't want [to] pass a law stopping someone from smoking. It's just too dangerous. You lose the concept of a free society. Since we are genetically so diverse and our brains are so different, we're going to have different aspirations.

If we don't play God, who will?

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.

As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.