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

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

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

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

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.

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 best project is one that asks a novel question.