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I have been much blessed.
I am thrilled to see my genome.
If we don't play God, who will?
Genetically modified foods are good.
If scientists don't play God, who will?
Never be the brightest person in the room.
I wanted to see if I could write a good book.
I don't want to die until I see cancer cured.
Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
Our goal should be to understand our differences.
The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
I wish there would be more movies about scientists.
There are many people of color who are very talented.
I want to see cancer cured in my lifetime. It might be.
(The National Cancer Program is) a bunch of (obscenity).
Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.
We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.
DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration
There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
Knowing "why" (an idea) is more important than learning "what" (the fact).
The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.
I've had strong opinions probably since I was born. It makes you unpopular, but what can you do?
Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them.
You move forward through knowledge. You prevail through knowledge. I love the word 'prevail.' Prevail!
The time has come to seriously ask whether antioxidant use much more likely causes than prevents cancer.
As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.
No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.
Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.
I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.
No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?
At lunch Francis [Crick] winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life.
The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
I have never seen Francis Crick in a modest mood. Perhaps in other company he is that way, but I have never had reason so to judge him.
To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologise unreservedly.
I would only once have the opportunity to let my scientific career encompass a path from the double helix to the three billion steps of the human genome.
For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better.