DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.

(The National Cancer Program is) a bunch of (obscenity).

If scientists don't play God, who will?

Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles.

Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them.

[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.

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.