There are many people of color who are very talented.

We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

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'm basically a libertarian. I don't want to restrict anyone from doing anything unless it's going to harm me. I don't want [to] pass a law stopping someone from smoking. It's just too dangerous. You lose the concept of a free society. Since we are genetically so diverse and our brains are so different, we're going to have different aspirations.