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.

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

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

The best project is one that asks a novel question.

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

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