American - Scientist | April 14, 1950 -
When does life begin? When does the soul enter? That's a religious question. Science is not going to be able to help with that.
Francis Collins
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Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.
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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.
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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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I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.
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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.
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A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run.
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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.
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I'm aware there are certain products that are being advertised - food products - with 'no chemicals whatsoever.' Well, that would be pretty hard to arrange, since everything around us is made up of atoms and molecules - chemicals - including ourselves.
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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.
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God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.
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Sometimes you develop a passion for something because of some personal experience.
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