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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.

Francis Collins

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Francis Collins
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: April 14
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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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By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.
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I'm a pretty informal guy. I ride a Harley.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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 think God appreciates that we appreciate his creation.
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Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.
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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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