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We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before.

I think I am missing a gene that most people have to enable them to feel happiness about success and these kind of things.

I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.

Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Selfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear.

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.

As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.