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Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear.

We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

I wanted to go from seeing the individual patient to seeing the plural - the whole population as a market. You want to see the larger population, yet at the same time you need to understand the impact of decisions on individuals.

We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.

What is unique about humans is their individuality.

Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically.