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I'm a serious Christian. I take my faith seriously. I try to practice it every day of the week, not just on Sunday.
- Francis Collins
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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
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People who are in a position of finding out that they're at risk for some illness, whether it's breast cancer, or heart disease, are afraid to get that information - even though it might be useful to them - because of fears that they'll lose their health insurance or their job.
- Francis Collins
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The best diet is the one that can be sustained over the long term, combined with other healthful lifestyle behaviors.
- Francis Collins
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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
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#How
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#Physician
#School
As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data.
- Francis Collins
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A cardinal principle that we must not stray from - no exceptions - is that your genetic information is your business in terms of who sees it. Nobody should be gaining access to that information without your explicit permission, and nobody should be requiring you to take a genetic test unless you decide that that's what you want to do.
- Francis Collins
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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.
- Francis Collins
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#Yourself
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.
- Francis Collins
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Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.
- Francis Collins
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I'm a pretty informal guy. I ride a Harley.
- Francis Collins
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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
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Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a disaster and all your hypotheses are wrong.
- Francis Collins
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Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.
- Francis Collins
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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
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#Question
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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?
- Francis Collins
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#Science
#See
God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.
- Francis Collins
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#People
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.
- Francis Collins
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#Misery
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Many people struggle with losing weight and then regaining it. But there is no convincing evidence that the effort to lose weight actually promotes more weight gain in the long run.
- Francis Collins
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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.
- Francis Collins
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#Life
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#Time
The brain is the most complicated organ in the universe. We have learned a lot about other human organs. We know how the heart pumps and how the kidney does what it does. To a certain degree, we have read the letters of the human genome. But the brain has 100 billion neurons. Each one of those has about 10,000 connections.
- Francis Collins
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#Know
#Universe
One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.
- Francis Collins
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#Own
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#View
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.
- Francis Collins
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#God
#Intelligence
#Opportunity
I became an atheist because, as a graduate student studying quantum physics, life seemed to be reducible to second-order differential equations. Mathematics, chemistry and physics had it all. And I didn't see any need to go beyond that.
- Francis Collins
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#Life
#Mathematics
#Physics
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