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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.
Francis Collins
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Francis Collins
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: April 14
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Francis S. Collins
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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 had the analysis of a million or so SNPs [single nucleotide polymorphisms] just to see what was there. That's partly because I was writing a book about DNA and personalized medicine and I thought it would be a little bit disingenuous to talk about what could be done without actually having the experiment done on yourself.
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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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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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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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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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We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.
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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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I believe in the literal rising of the body of Christ. It's the cornerstone of my Christian faith.
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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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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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I'm a pretty informal guy. I ride a Harley.
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God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.
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By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.
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What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head?
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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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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 there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.
Francis Collins
