As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

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.

If we don't play God, who will?

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

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

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.