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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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United States
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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 think God appreciates that we appreciate his creation.
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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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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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[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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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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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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I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.
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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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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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Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.
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Science is... a powerful way, indeed - to study the natural world. Science is not particularly effective... in making commentary about the supernatural world. Both worlds, for me, are quite real and quite important. They are investigated in different ways. They coexist. They illuminate each other.
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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 faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head?
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There are good reasons to believe in God, including the existence of mathematical principles and order in creation. They are positive reasons, based on knowledge, rather than default assumptions based on a temporary lack of knowledge.
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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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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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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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[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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