I have been much blessed.

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

There are many people of color who are very talented.

If I had been married earlier in life, I wouldn't have seen the double helix. I would have been taking care of the kids on Saturday. On the other hand, I was lonely a lot of the time.

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.

Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.

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