No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.

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

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

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

For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better.

Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.

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.