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God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.
Francis Collins
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Francis Collins
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: April 14
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Virginia
United States
Francis S. Collins
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Francis Sellers Collins
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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.
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The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. He can be worshipped in the cathedral or in the laboratory. His creation is majestic, awesome, intricate, and beautiful.
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[The tests agreed] that I was at higher risk than the average person for Type 2 diabetes, which is what my lab works on. In fact, some of the things they were testing for were variants that we had discovered.
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God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.
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All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.
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A lot of science doesn't require big ns but if you're trying to understand something about human health and you're looking at interventions that are not going to be either killing you or making you live forever - they're going to have some tweaking on the outcome - you need big numbers or you don't have enough power.
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I'm a pretty informal guy. I ride a Harley.
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When I discover something about the human genome, I experience a sense of awe at the mystery of life, and say to myself, 'Wow, only God knew before.' It is a profoundly beautiful and moving sensation, which helps me appreciate God and makes science even more rewarding for me.
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In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one.
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Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.
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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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What does it take to get people interested, what does it take to get people engaged, what does it take to get them to give a biospecimen? What does it take to get people like Jim [Ostell] to get interested and engaged, versus someone like my mother?
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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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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.
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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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If God made the natural laws, why could he not violate them when it was a particularly significant moment for him to do so? And if you accept the idea that Christ was also divine, which I do, then his Resurrection is not in itself a great logical leap.
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Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.
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C.S. Lewis had a big influence on me in this spiritual realm - this sort of sense of longing. A longing for a knowledge that is just outside of our reach, a knowledge for a spiritual connection.
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[Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all of science. I believe that reading our blueprints, cataloguing our own instruction book, will be judged by history as more significant than even splitting the atom or going to the moon.
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