[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.

I am thrilled to see my genome.

A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.

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

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

The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.

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