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

I wish there would be more movies about scientists.

It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

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

Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.

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.