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

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 virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

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

The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints.

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

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