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Francis Collins

Francis Sellers Collins (born April 14, 1950) is an American physician-geneticist who discovered the genes associated with a number of diseases and led the Human Genome Project. He is director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, United States.

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I'm enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexities of the human brain and how it works, but I do think there may be limits in terms of what science can tell us about what does good and evil mean anyway, and what are those concepts about?

Evil, Human, Mean, Neuroscience, Take, Thinking

Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record, the study of DNA provides the strongest possible proof of our relatedness to all other living things.

Dna, Doubt, Fossils, Relatedness

I'm a serious Christian. I take my faith seriously. I try to practice it every day of the week, not just on Sunday.

Christian, Day, Practice, Sunday, Take

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

Existence, Prove, Tools

Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a disaster and all your hypotheses are wrong.

Disaster, Hypotheses, Nothing, Periods, Research, Works

A lot of people think PMI is the genome project 2. 0. No. This is about all the influences on disease - genetics is in there, but the environment is in there as well, health choices, behaviors, all the factors that are important, otherwise we're not doing what we promised we would do - which is in a holistic way look at how people stay healthy or how do they fall ill.

Fall, Holistic, People, Pmi, Thinking, Way

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.

Beautiful, Creation, Laboratory, Majestic

One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.

Deeply, Defensible, Iron, Order, Position, Views

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.

Book, Dna, Million, Snps, Writing

What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?

Book, Instruction, Mankind, Powerful, Science, Study

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.

Healing, Sick, Interesting, Life, Path

I believe God did intend, in giving us intelligence, to give us the opportunity to investigate and appreciate the wonders of His creation. He is not threatened by our scientific adventures.

Adventure, Adventures, Appreciate, Believe, God, Opportunity

God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.

Exercise, Free, Hurt, Hurting, People

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.

Oftentimes, Opportunity, Prayer, Stuff, Trying, Understand

The problem [with genetic research] is, we're just starting down this path, feeling our way in the dark. We have a small lantern in the form of a gene, but the lantern doesn't penetrate more than a couple of hundred feet. We don't know whether we're going to encounter chasms, rock walls or mountain ranges along the way. We don't even know how long the path is.

Couple, Wall, Dark, Lantern, Feeling, Problem

When a drug comes out [that's broadly prescribed] there are going to start to be a lot of people on it [in a million person cohort] and you might get therefore an early signal of something unexpected that hadn't come through in the clinical trials. And I'm sure [drug companies] would love it if, in fact, FDA, recognizing that, would say, OK, maybe you don't have to do your trial with 30,000 people because we're going to find out shortly after registration because we'll have a lot of people taking the drug and we'll be able to see what happened using PMI.

Drug, Fda, People, Pmi, Taking

Evolution, as a mechanism, can be and must be true. But that says nothing about the nature of its author. For those who believe in God, there are reasons now to be more in awe, not less.

Awe, Believe, Evolution, God, Nothing, Reason

God is most certainly not threatened by science; He made it all possible.

God, Made, Made It, Possible, Science, Threatened

Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.

Argued, Becoming, Gets, Leap Of Faith, Reason, Way

As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data.

Data, Decision, Scientist, Decisions, Supposed

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