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" In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one. "
Francis Collins
Physician
Experience
My Own
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" I believe in the literal rising of the body of Christ. It's the cornerstone of my Christian faith. "
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" Proponents of intelligent design don't accept that some of the very complex nanomachines that we have inside ourselves could have come about solely on the basis of natural selection. "
Francis Collins
Design
Intelligent
Natural
" I'm a pretty informal guy. I ride a Harley. "
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Harley
Informal
" If I'm walking down the riverbank, and a man is drowning, even if I don't know how to swim very well, I feel this urge that the right thing to do is to try to save that person. Evolution would tell me exactly the opposite: preserve your DNA. Who cares about the guy who's drowning? "
Francis Collins
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Evolution
Feel
" The brain is the most complicated organ in the universe. We have learned a lot about other human organs. We know how the heart pumps and how the kidney does what it does. To a certain degree, we have read the letters of the human genome. But the brain has 100 billion neurons. Each one of those has about 10,000 connections. "
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Brain
Connections
Human
" God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people. "
Francis Collins
Choose
People
Free
" 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. "
Francis Collins
History
Think
People
" Cancer is a disease of the genome. And that's what happens. You make mistakes in a cell somewhere in your body that causes it to start to grow when it should've stopped, and that's cancer. And those mistakes are mistakes of DNA. "
Francis Collins
You
Start
Cancer
" 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. "
Francis Collins
Change
Opportunity
Family
" Growing up, I was vaguely aware of things that went on in church, because I was in the boys' choir at the local Episcopal church. But I got the clear message that I was supposed to learn music there, and not pay too much attention to the rest of it, and I followed those instructions very carefully. "
Francis Collins
Growing Up
Music
Growing
" If you are in support of in vitro fertilization, then you have to recognize that human embryos are being created in excess of what can be used safely to reimplant for a pregnancy. So they're going to end up being discarded. "
Francis Collins
Support
You
Going
" A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run. "
Francis Collins
Always
Long
Consequences
" 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. "
Francis Collins
Misery
Human
Far
" For me, in my Christian belief, prayer is not an opportunity to manipulate God into doing what you want him to. Prayer is an opportunity to have a conversation with God to try to get in tune with what his will is. "
Francis Collins
Me
God
Prayer
" 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. "
Francis Collins
Living
Word
Try
" We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable. "
Francis Collins
Our
Give
Just
" Genes are effectively one-dimensional. If you write down the sequence of A, C, G and T, that's kind of what you need to know about that gene. But proteins are three-dimensional. They have to be because we are three-dimensional, and we're made of those proteins. Otherwise we'd all sort of be linear, unimaginably weird creatures. "
Francis Collins
Weird
Down
Kind
" The shelves of many evangelicals are full of books that point out the flaws in evolution, discuss it only as a theory, and almost imply that there's a conspiracy here to avoid the fact that evolution is actually flawed. All of those books, unfortunately, are based upon conclusions that no reasonable biologist would now accept. "
Francis Collins
Evolution
Flaws
Accept
" Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is. "
Francis Collins
Important
Work
Outside
" 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. "
Francis Collins
Interesting
Age
Earth
" The best diet is the one that can be sustained over the long term, combined with other healthful lifestyle behaviors. "
Francis Collins
Other
Long
Lifestyle
" Sometimes you develop a passion for something because of some personal experience. "
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Experience
You
Sometimes
" What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head? "
Francis Collins
Over
Used
Club
" I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome. "
Francis Collins
Because
Study
Think
" Faith is reason plus revelation, and the revelation part requires one to think with the spirit as well as with the mind. You have to hear the music, not just read the notes on the page. "
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You
Think
Faith
" 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. "
Francis Collins
See
Studying
Life
" 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? "
Francis Collins
You
Cells
Inside
" 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? "
Francis Collins
Good
See
Science
" 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
God
Believe
Opportunity
" 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. "
Francis Collins
You
Yourself
World