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Francis Collins


American
April 14, 1950
Scientist
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What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head?


Francis Collins
Tags: Faith Been Over
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Sometimes you develop a passion for something because of some personal experience.


Francis Collins
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I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.


Francis Collins
Tags: God Experience Me
We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.
Francis Collins
Tags: Just Our Give
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.
Francis Collins
One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.
Francis Collins
Tags: Know Your Own
I took care of young adults with cystic fibrosis when I was in my residency training and found this to be a disease that was desperately in need of some explanation.
Francis Collins
Tags: Some Need Young
My own area of expertise is the genetics of human disease. I was fortunate to be part of the team that found the genes for cystic fibrosis, and Huntington's disease and neurofibromatosis.
Francis Collins
Tags: Own Part Human
I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be a physician. So, I'm a physician scientist.
Francis Collins
Tags: Medical How Then
Cancer is a disease of the genome. And that's what happens. You make mistakes in a cell somewhere in your body that causes it to start to grow when it should've stopped, and that's cancer. And those mistakes are mistakes of DNA.
Francis Collins
Tags: You Your Make
If you are looking for a needle in a haystack, and somebody has already cataloged all the straw in the haystack, when you get to that needle you will recognize it's different than what was supposed to be there based on all that computerized haystack information that had been predetermined for you.
Francis Collins
Tags: You Get Had
Patenting tends to get people's juices flowing when you put the word 'gene' and the word 'patent' in the same sentence. And understandably so. This is stuff we're carrying around - all of us - inside all of our cells. Should somebody be able to lay claim to it?
Francis Collins
Tags: You People Get
I actually do not believe that there are any collisions between what I believe as a Christian, and what I know and have learned about as a scientist. I think there's a broad perception that that's the case, and that's what scares many scientists away from a serious consideration of faith.
Francis Collins
Tags: Faith About Think
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?
Francis Collins
Genes are effectively one-dimensional. If you write down the sequence of A, C, G and T, that's kind of what you need to know about that gene. But proteins are three-dimensional. They have to be because we are three-dimensional, and we're made of those proteins. Otherwise we'd all sort of be linear, unimaginably weird creatures.
Francis Collins
Tags: You About Because