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

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.

The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.

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

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.

Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.

No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.