Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.

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

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

Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.

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.

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