Francis Collins Quotes
When I discover something about the human genome, I experience a sense of awe at the mystery of life, and say to myself, 'Wow, only God knew before.' It is a profoundly beautiful and moving sensation, which helps me appreciate God and makes science even more rewarding for me.
Quotes to Explore
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.
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It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.
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After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.
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I know one business, and that's how to make software.
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'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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Young people are this awesome, creative, hopeful untapped resource out there.
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There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.
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I'm not ever going to be dependent on someone else for a job.
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If speculative ideas can not be tested, they're not science; they don't even rise to the level of being wrong.
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Selling is helping people to do what they're already inclined to do.
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But they lived those extraordinary lives that can never be lived again. And in the living of them, they gave me a history that is more profound, more beautiful, more powerful, more passionate, and ultimately more useful, than the best damn history book I ever read.
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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When I discover something about the human genome, I experience a sense of awe at the mystery of life, and say to myself, 'Wow, only God knew before.' It is a profoundly beautiful and moving sensation, which helps me appreciate God and makes science even more rewarding for me.
