The best project is one that asks a novel question.

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.

We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.