I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

Knowing "why" (an idea) is more important than learning "what" (the fact).

It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.

No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?

We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.

Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them.

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.

Never be the brightest person in the room.

Man is hypocrite! He says that he loves flowers but he kills them for his own simple interests and for his own joy! Man is hypocrite!

In order for people to live their own lives and fulfill their destiny, they must differentiate themselves from destructive environmental influences.

Most humans turn away from God simply for the privilege of deluding themselves into thinking they are the masters of their own destiny.

For Christmas I do gift bags for my friends and the cast, and I put 'treat yo self' key chains in there. And people send me pictures of 'treat yo self' all the time.

God has a lot of things to teach us in Heaven, things we didn't learn in this life.

I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.

I enjoy hats. And when one has filthy hair, that is a good accessory.

I know what it means to be Jewish, and I don't think someone who wasn't Jewish would really understand.

There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group.