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

The best project is one that asks a novel question.

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

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!'

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

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

By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.