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Cancer is a disease of the genome. And that's what happens. You make mistakes in a cell somewhere in your body that causes it to start to grow when it should've stopped, and that's cancer. And those mistakes are mistakes of DNA.

~Francis Collins

Topics: Body Cancer Causes Cell Disease Genome Grow Happens Make Mistakes Somewhere Start Stopped Those You Your Your Body Dna

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A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run.

~Francis Collins

Topics: Advance Almost Always Consequences Long Long Run Major Run Short Sort Technological Underestimated

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I'm enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexities of the human brain and how it works, but I do think there may be limits in terms of what science can tell us about what does good and evil mean anyway, and what are those concepts about?

~Francis Collins

Topics: About Anyway Brain Complexities Concepts Does Evil Good Good And Evil How Human Human Brain Interested Limits May Mean Neuroscience Science See Take Tell Terms Think Those Understanding Us Where Works

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I'm aware there are certain products that are being advertised - food products - with 'no chemicals whatsoever.' Well, that would be pretty hard to arrange, since everything around us is made up of atoms and molecules - chemicals - including ourselves.

~Francis Collins

Topics: Around Arrange Atoms Aware Being Certain Chemicals Everything Food Hard Including Made Molecules Ourselves Pretty Products Since Up Us Well Whatsoever Would

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The word 'living' has so many connotations that I'm almost reluctant to try to define it scientifically because it sounds as if I'm then downgrading all the other significances of that word.

~Francis Collins

Topics: Almost Because Define Living Many Other Reluctant Scientifically Sounds Then Try Word

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Sometimes you develop a passion for something because of some personal experience.

~Francis Collins

Topics: Because Develop Experience Passion Personal Personal Experience Some Something Sometimes You

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I took care of young adults with cystic fibrosis when I was in my residency training and found this to be a disease that was desperately in need of some explanation.

~Francis Collins

Topics: Adult Care Desperately Disease Explanation Found Need Some Took Training Young Young Adults

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If you are in support of in vitro fertilization, then you have to recognize that human embryos are being created in excess of what can be used safely to reimplant for a pregnancy. So they're going to end up being discarded.

~Francis Collins

Topics: Being Created Discarded Embryos End Excess Fertilization Going Human Pregnancy Recognize Safely Support Then Up Used You

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It is interesting that the U.S. has this very strong proportion of the population that rejects scientific conclusions about the age of the Earth and about evolutionary relationships between species, including humans.

~Francis Collins

Topics: About Age Between Conclusions Earth Evolutionary Humans Including Interesting Population Proportion Rejects Relationships Scientific Species Strong Very

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The best diet is the one that can be sustained over the long term, combined with other healthful lifestyle behaviors.

~Francis Collins

Topics: Behaviors Best Combined Diet Lifestyle Long Long Term Other Over Sustained Term

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: April 14th, 1950

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