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.

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.

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

The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.

If we don't play God, who will?

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.

At lunch Francis [Crick] winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life.