Francis Collins Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Faith is reason plus revelation, and the revelation part requires one to think with the spirit as well as with the mind. You have to hear the music, not just read the notes on the page.”

“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.”

“If I'm walking down the riverbank, and a man is drowning, even if I don't know how to swim very well, I feel this urge that the right thing to do is to try to save that person. Evolution would tell me exactly the opposite: preserve your DNA. Who cares about the guy who's drowning?”

“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.”