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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.

Francis Collins

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Francis Collins
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: April 14
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Virginia
United States
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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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I think God appreciates that we appreciate his creation.
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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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I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.
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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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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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God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.
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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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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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[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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It's interesting when you read the life of Christ how much of his time he spent healing the sick. There must have been a reason for that - he was modelling for us what it is we are intended to do by following his path.
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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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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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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've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.
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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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By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.
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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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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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