I wanted to see if I could write a good book.
If scientists don’t play God, who will?
Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.
Polls consistently show that the majority of Americans favour research using embryonic stem cells and yet politicians continue to pander to the outspoken religious minority that is hampering efforts to develop this potentially valuable technology.
Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with knowledge, can undo that damage.
The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.
There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
I wish there would be more movies about scientists.
Ultimately, we’ll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.
Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
There are many people of color who are very talented.
You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration.
A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
I am thrilled to see my genome.
DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.
If I had been married earlier in life, I wouldn’t have seen the double helix. I would have been taking care of the kids on Saturday. On the other hand, I was lonely a lot of the time.