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

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

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

Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.

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.

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

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