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

We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.

Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.

I turned against the left wing because they don't like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

I recently went to my staircase at Clare College, Cambridge and there were women there! There have been a lot of convincing studies recently about the loss of productivity in the Western male. It may be that entertainment culture now is so engaging that it keeps people satisfied. We didn't have that. Science was much more fun than listening to the radio. When you are 16 or 17 and in that inherently semi-lonely period when you are deciding whether to be an intellectual, many now don't bother.

The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.