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

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.

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

I'm basically a libertarian. I don't want to restrict anyone from doing anything unless it's going to harm me. I don't want [to] pass a law stopping someone from smoking. It's just too dangerous. You lose the concept of a free society. Since we are genetically so diverse and our brains are so different, we're going to have different aspirations.

If scientists don't play God, who will?

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

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