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The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and your environment work together to produce the person you are.

The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.

Now we have technology where we can modify the genomics of individuals by gene transfer and genetic meddling, we may find that people will want to modify their children, enhance their intelligence, their strength and their beauty and all the other so-called desirable characteristics.

Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment.

There's a constant debate over nature or nurture - they're inseparable.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.

Geneticists in the early 1900s believed that nature - in an effort to avoid wasting precious space within chromosomes - would pack as many genes into each chromosome as possible.

It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.