Francis Collins Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• As an atheist evolving to agnosticism, and seeking answers to whether or not belief in God is potentially rational, my life was turned upside down 35 years ago by reading C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity.

  Francis Collins

  Life, God, Atheist

• [Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all of science. I believe that reading our blueprints, cataloguing our own instruction book, will be judged by history as more significant than even splitting the atom or going to the moon.

  Francis Collins

  Believe, Book, Reading

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

  Francis Collins

  Powerful, Book, Science

  Francis Collins' remarks on the Completion of the First Survey of the Entire Human Genome Project in the East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C., clintonwhitehouse5.archives.gov. June 26, 2000.

• 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.

  Francis Collins

  Book, Writing, Dna

  Source: www.politico.com

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