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.

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

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.

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

One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.

If we don't play God, who will?

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