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Life's a hobby.
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.
I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.
If scientists don't play God, who will?
Never be the brightest person in the room.
Everybody has to learn for the first time.
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.
The brain doesn't pay attention to boring things.
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.
Every important machine's got to have a big red button.
(The National Cancer Program is) a bunch of (obscenity).
I was a huge athlete as a kid. I was on every sports team.
We must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity.
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.
My bacteria glow in the dark - no human being doesn't like that.
You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
I've always been a serious computer nerd, as well as a biologist.
Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration
By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.
We mostly don't get sick. Most often, bacteria are keeping us well.
There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.
If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications.
I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.
My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.
All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.
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.
I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.
So, okay, I'm not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses.
I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook.
You've got seconds to grab your audience's attention and only minutes to keep it.
The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus.
It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
I'm really focused on my research almost 100 percent. That, and my family and kids.
You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial.
I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.
Bacteria mineralized the rocks; they deposited the iron. They made the geology we see.