Genetics is in pretty deep weeds right now because we put billions of dollars into basic scientific research to sequence the human genome and very little in the transitional aspects of moving it into health care.

When we did things right tonight, we looked pretty good. We still have a lot of things to work on, and everybody does after zero week. I think Howard played well and made some good decisions. Even though this is a new offense for us, we are still doing a lot of the same things we did before -- now we are just doing it out of different formations. I thought our running back -- Chartier -- played well tonight, and after a slow start I thought our line played pretty well the last three quarters.

More than any other single trait, it is the apple’s genetic variability—its ineluctable wildness—that accounts for its ability to make itself at home in places as different from one another as New England and New Zealand, Kazakhstan and California. Wherever the apple tree goes, its offspring propose so many different variations on what it means to be an apple—at least five per apple, several thousand per tree—that a couple of these novelties are almost bound to have whatever qualities it takes to prosper in the tree’s adopted home.

We scientists typically are good at doing our research, but we're not so good at communicating it to the public -- its relevance and why we should spend taxpayer dollars to fund it.

I don't think there is any way this could have been predicted. Right now we are doing enough research to get on top of the problem to stop this from happening. I don't think you can point the finger at anyone.

We'll be able to have meeting spaces, a computer lab and a library for research. Right now I have over 100 books that people have donated in my attic because there's nowhere else to store them.