If I had been married earlier in life, I wouldn't have seen the double helix. I would have been taking care of the kids on Saturday. On the other hand, I was lonely a lot of the time.

I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

If we don't play God, who will?

I wish there would be more movies about scientists.

It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.

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