There are many people of color who are very talented.

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

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

If scientists don't play God, who will?

The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.

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 wanted to see if I could write a good book.