I would only once have the opportunity to let my scientific career encompass a path from the double helix to the three billion steps of the human genome.
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I've had strong opinions probably since I was born. It makes you unpopular, but what can you do?
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I never could read science fiction. I was just uninterested in it. And you know, I don't like to read novels where the hero just goes beyond what I think could exist. And it doesn't interest me because I'm not learning anything about something I'll actually have to deal with.
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It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
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My wife and I have a schizophrenic son. We didn't want to accept this for 30 years, so we put him under great pressure when we shouldn't have. He just wanted to be looked after, and we didn't respect that. We tried to make him independent.
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