Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

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

If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.

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

I am thrilled to see my genome.

If scientists don't play God, who will?

Remember, grab you're future with both hands and mold it into what you want it to be. It's the determined, who create the life they want, while the idle sit by and watch it fade away into nothingness. The future belongs to the exceptional individuals, who can see the light of the future, at the end of the tunnel.