If we don't play God, who will?

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

Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles.

Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

I am thrilled to see my genome.

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