Our goal should be to understand our differences.

There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.

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?

I recently went to my staircase at Clare College, Cambridge and there were women there! There have been a lot of convincing studies recently about the loss of productivity in the Western male. It may be that entertainment culture now is so engaging that it keeps people satisfied. We didn't have that. Science was much more fun than listening to the radio. When you are 16 or 17 and in that inherently semi-lonely period when you are deciding whether to be an intellectual, many now don't bother.

Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

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