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I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.
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
Francis S Collins
F. S. Collins
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Francis Sellers Collins
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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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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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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 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 God appreciates that we appreciate his creation.
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God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.
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Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.
Francis Collins
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 believe in the literal rising of the body of Christ. It's the cornerstone of my Christian faith.
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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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I'm a pretty informal guy. I ride a Harley.
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God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.
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We are still working with an incomplete compass. The time is right to bring the full power of genomics to bear on the problem of cancer.
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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.
Francis Collins
I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.
Francis Collins
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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[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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Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.
Francis Collins
Prayer is, for me, not an opportunity to ask God to do stuff for me. Prayer is an opportunity to open myself, to try and understand his will, and oftentimes it's a prayer of thanksgiving, and sometimes it's a prayer of supplication, and sometimes it is just worship.
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As our closest relatives, they (chimpanzees) tell us special things about what it means to be a primate and, ultimately, what it means to be a human at the DNA level.
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