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Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.

Francis Collins

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Francis Collins
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: April 14
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Chemist
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Virginia
United States
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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[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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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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All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.
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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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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've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.
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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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I think God appreciates that we appreciate his creation.
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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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I'm a pretty informal guy. I ride a Harley.
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What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head?
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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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I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.
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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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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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God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.
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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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