The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.

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

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

Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.

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.

No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?

One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.