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By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.

Francis Collins

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Francis Collins
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: April 14
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Chemist
Geneticist
Physician
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Virginia
United States
Francis S. Collins
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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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What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head?
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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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I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.
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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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So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.
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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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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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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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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 is an awesome mathematician and physicist.
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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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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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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 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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Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.
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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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All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.
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