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

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

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

Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.

The best project is one that asks a novel question.

Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.

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.