The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints.

Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.

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

We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.

The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

Three billion bases of DNA sequence can be put on a single compact disc and one will be able to pull a CD out of one's pocket and say, 'Here is a human being; it's me!'