I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be a physician. So, I’m a physician scientist.
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.
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’m a pretty informal guy. I ride a Harley.
I think there are people who’s lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.
God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.
As a scientist, you’re not supposed to make decisions without the data.
A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences – and underestimated in the long run.
One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.
God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.
Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a disaster and all your hypotheses are wrong.
It’s interesting when you read the life of Christ how much of his time he spent healing the sick. There must have been a reason for that – he was modelling for us what it is we are intended to do by following his path.
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.
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.
Sometimes you develop a passion for something because of some personal experience.
Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool – and how important – their work really is.
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.
The blooming of a flower is, in my mind, not a miracle. It’s something that we can understand on the basis of molecular biology these days.
What wakes me up at night is this next generation and what’s happening to them. And they’re invariably excited about the science that they’re doing, but invariably anxious about where there’s a future.