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" As a Christian, but also as a scientist responsible for overseeing the Human Genome Project, one of my concerns has been the limits on applications of our understanding of the genome. Should there be limits? I think there should. I think the public has expressed their concern about ways this information might be misused. "

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" I believe God did intend, in giving us intelligence, to give us the opportunity to investigate and appreciate the wonders of His creation. He is not threatened by our scientific adventures. "

Francis Collins

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" Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a disaster and all your hypotheses are wrong. "

" Patenting tends to get people's juices flowing when you put the word 'gene' and the word 'patent' in the same sentence. And understandably so. This is stuff we're carrying around - all of us - inside all of our cells. Should somebody be able to lay claim to it? "

" As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data. "

" Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you're not misleading yourself, science is the way to do it. "

" So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not. "

" I'm a serious Christian. I take my faith seriously. I try to practice it every day of the week, not just on Sunday. "

" I took care of young adults with cystic fibrosis when I was in my residency training and found this to be a disease that was desperately in need of some explanation. "

" If you are looking for a needle in a haystack, and somebody has already cataloged all the straw in the haystack, when you get to that needle you will recognize it's different than what was supposed to be there based on all that computerized haystack information that had been predetermined for you. "

" I'm enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexities of the human brain and how it works, but I do think there may be limits in terms of what science can tell us about what does good and evil mean anyway, and what are those concepts about? "

" God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people. "

" The word 'living' has so many connotations that I'm almost reluctant to try to define it scientifically because it sounds as if I'm then downgrading all the other significances of that word. "

" In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one. "

" If God is real, and I believe he is, then he is outside of nature. He is, therefore, not limited by the laws of nature in the way that we are. "

" I'm a pretty informal guy. I ride a Harley. "

" I think history would say that medical research has, throughout many changes of parties, remained as one of the shining lights of bipartisan agreement, that people are concerned about health for themselves, for their families, for their constituents. "

" It is interesting that the U.S. has this very strong proportion of the population that rejects scientific conclusions about the age of the Earth and about evolutionary relationships between species, including humans. "

" For delightfully quirky descriptions of bizarre neurological syndromes that teach us a lot about how the brain works, there is no match for Oliver Sacks. "

Francis Collins

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" I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me. "

" When does life begin? When does the soul enter? That's a religious question. Science is not going to be able to help with that. "

" God is an awesome mathematician and physicist. "

" I became an atheist because, as a graduate student studying quantum physics, life seemed to be reducible to second-order differential equations. Mathematics, chemistry and physics had it all. And I didn't see any need to go beyond that. "

" One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron. "

" We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable. "

" The best diet is the one that can be sustained over the long term, combined with other healthful lifestyle behaviors. "

" Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is. "

" Sometimes you develop a passion for something because of some personal experience. "

" People who are in a position of finding out that they're at risk for some illness, whether it's breast cancer, or heart disease, are afraid to get that information - even though it might be useful to them - because of fears that they'll lose their health insurance or their job. "

" Successful weight management really means a permanent change in lifestyle - and success in this arena provides that person with a great opportunity to model that behavior for friends and family. "

" I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome. "