Background
- Born in
- Staunton
- Educated at
- Yale UniversityUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillUniversity of VirginiaStaunton High SchoolUniversity of North Carolina School of Medicine
- Awards
- 🏆 Presidential Medal of Freedom🏆 Templeton Prize🏆 Dickson Prize in Medicine
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"I was an atheist, finding no reason to postulate the existence of any truths outside of mathematics, physics and chemistry. But then I went to medical school, and encountered life and death issues at …"
"As someone who's had the privilege of leading the human genome project, I've had the opportunity to study our own DNA instruction book at a level of detail that was never really possible before. It's …"
"Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record, the study of DNA provides the strongest possible proof of …"
"... God must also be an incredible physicist ... there is this phenomenal fine-tuning of the universe that makes complexity and, therefore, life possible."
"I would not expect religion to be the right tool for sequencing the human genome and by the same token would not expect science to be the means to approaching the supernatural. But on the really inter…"
"Reason alone cannot prove the existence of God. Faith is reason plus revelation, and the revelation part requires one to think with the spirit as well as with the mind. You have to hear the music, not…"
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1921
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Death1950
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