Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.

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!'

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.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

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

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

Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.