The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.

Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.

My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes.

I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.