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What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head?
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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Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.
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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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We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.
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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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I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.
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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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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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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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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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Are we using science in ways that it wasn't intended to, in which case we should be a little careful, or are we using faith in ways that faith wasn't really designed for? There are certain questions that are better answered by one approach than the other, and if you start mixing that up, then you end up in ... conflict.
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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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What wakes me up at night is this next generation and what's happening to them. And they're invariably excited about the science that they're doing, but invariably anxious about where there's a future.
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I'm a pretty informal guy. I ride a Harley.
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I think God appreciates that we appreciate his creation.
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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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God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.
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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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