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?

(The National Cancer Program is) a bunch of (obscenity).

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

[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.

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

There are many people of color who are very talented.