A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

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.

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

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.

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

The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.

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?