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

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

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

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.

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

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