I have a son, who is a... not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great fear of then, of all parents is, when the parents die, who takes care of your child? And the answer is: they become homeless.

Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally seek to do: pursue the most thrilling questions of the time.

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

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

Polls consistently show that the majority of Americans favour research using embryonic stem cells and yet politicians continue to pander to the outspoken religious minority that is hampering efforts to develop this potentially valuable technology.

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

The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.