I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome. 
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. 
As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data. 
I'm a pretty informal guy. I ride a Harley. 
One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron. 
God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people. 
What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book? 
In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one. 
I'm a serious Christian. I take my faith seriously. I try to practice it every day of the week, not just on Sunday. 
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. 
Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a disaster and all your hypotheses are wrong. 
By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy 
Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is. 
I believe in the literal rising of the body of Christ. It's the cornerstone of my Christian faith. 
Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you're not misleading yourself, science is the way to do it. 
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. 
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. 
We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable. 
Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation. 
The blooming of a flower is, in my mind, not a miracle. It's something that we can understand on the basis of molecular biology these days 
A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run. 
What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head? 
A virus is not just DNA; a virus is also packaged up, covered over with a series of proteins in a nice, elegant, well-compacted form. 
Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith. 
God is an awesome mathematician and physicist. 