I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.

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

The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.

Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them.

One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural, and it was a lesson that my father passed on to me, that knowledge liberates mankind from superstition. We can live our lives without the constant fear that we have offended this or that deity who must be placated by incantation or sacrifice, or that we are at the mercy of devils or the Fates. With increasing knowledge, the intellectual darkness that surrounds us is illuminated and we learn more of the beauty and wonder of the natural world.

I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.

If scientists don't play God, who will?