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.

I am thrilled to see my genome.

For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better.

Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.

The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.

Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.

I have been much blessed.