American - Scientist | April 14, 1950 -
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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My own area of expertise is the genetics of human disease. I was fortunate to be part of the team that found the genes for cystic fibrosis, and Huntington's disease and neurofibromatosis.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm a serious Christian. I take my faith seriously. I try to practice it every day of the week, not just on Sunday.
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I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.
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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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We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.
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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.
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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.
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What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head?
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