No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?

You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.

There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.

At lunch Francis [Crick] winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life.

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

The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.

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