Francis Collins Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Francis Collins quotes and sayings page 3 (scientist). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 56 we have.
“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.”
“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.”
“A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run.”
“I'm a serious Christian. I take my faith seriously. I try to practice it every day of the week, not just on Sunday.”
“In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one.”
“Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a disaster and all your hypotheses are wrong.”
“For delightfully quirky descriptions of bizarre neurological syndromes that teach us a lot about how the brain works, there is no match for Oliver Sacks.”
“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.”
“Sometimes you develop a passion for something because of some personal experience.”
“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.”
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