Francis Collins quote: "I think history would say that medical research has, throughout many changes of parties, remained as one of the shining lights of bipartisan agreement, that people are concerned about health for themselves, for their families, for their constituents."

I actually do not believe that there are any collisions between what I believe as a Christian, and w...
FRANCIS COLLINS

I believe God did intend, in giving us intelligence, to give us the opportunity to investigate and a...
FRANCIS COLLINS

The shelves of many evangelicals are full of books that point out the flaws in evolution, discuss it...
FRANCIS COLLINS

I believe in the literal rising of the body of Christ. It's the cornerstone of my Christian fait...
FRANCIS COLLINS

Growing up, I was vaguely aware of things that went on in church, because I was in the boys' cho...
FRANCIS COLLINS

I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to...
FRANCIS COLLINS

Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That...
FRANCIS COLLINS

As a Christian, but also as a scientist responsible for overseeing the Human Genome Project, one of ...
FRANCIS COLLINS

I became an atheist because, as a graduate student studying quantum physics, life seemed to be reduc...
FRANCIS COLLINS

If you are in support of in vitro fertilization, then you have to recognize that human embryos are b...
FRANCIS COLLINS

One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains ...
FRANCIS COLLINS

If I'm walking down the riverbank, and a man is drowning, even if I don't know how to swim v...
FRANCIS COLLINS

The brain is the most complicated organ in the universe. We have learned a lot about other human org...
FRANCIS COLLINS

We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just ac...
FRANCIS COLLINS

I finished up my graduate degree in quantum mechanics, but underwent a bit of a personal crisis, rec...
FRANCIS COLLINS

Cancer is a disease of the genome. And that's what happens. You make mistakes in a cell somewher...
FRANCIS COLLINS

I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.
FRANCIS COLLINS

I don't have a problem with the concept that miracles might occasionally occur at moments of gre...
FRANCIS COLLINS

What a profound responsibility it is to do this work. Historians will consider this a turning point.
FRANCIS COLLINS

Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a di...
FRANCIS COLLINS

So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases tha...
FRANCIS COLLINS

This is a stunning surprise, rather like finding out that the key to your house also works in the ig...
FRANCIS COLLINS

Patenting tends to get people's juices flowing when you put the word 'gene' and the word...
FRANCIS COLLINS

Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you'...
FRANCIS COLLINS

For me, in my Christian belief, prayer is not an opportunity to manipulate God into doing what you w...
FRANCIS COLLINS

It's interesting when you read the life of Christ how much of his time he spent healing the sick...
FRANCIS COLLINS

The best diet is the one that can be sustained over the long term, combined with other healthful lif...
FRANCIS COLLINS

I'm a pretty informal guy. I ride a Harley.
FRANCIS COLLINS

Successful weight management really means a permanent change in lifestyle - and success in this aren...
FRANCIS COLLINS

This is a stunning surprise, rather like finding out that the key to your house also works in the ig...
FRANCIS COLLINS

The hopes of the parent of a child with a birth defect, the hopes of a young man with a family histo...
FRANCIS COLLINS

Proponents of intelligent design don't accept that some of the very complex nanomachines that we...
FRANCIS COLLINS

If you are looking for a needle in a haystack, and somebody has already cataloged all the straw in t...
FRANCIS COLLINS

I'm enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexit...
FRANCIS COLLINS

For delightfully quirky descriptions of bizarre neurological syndromes that teach us a lot about how...
FRANCIS COLLINS

To get our universe, with all of its potential for complexities or any kind of potential for any kin...
FRANCIS COLLINS

This is an audacious undertaking.
FRANCIS COLLINS

We've learnt fascinating lessons
FRANCIS COLLINS

All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and enviro...
FRANCIS COLLINS

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

Genes are effectively one-dimensional. If you write down the sequence of A, C, G and T, that's k...
FRANCIS COLLINS

It is interesting that the U.S. has this very strong proportion of the population that rejects scien...
FRANCIS COLLINS

A virus is not just DNA; a virus is also packaged up, covered over with a series of proteins in a ni...
FRANCIS COLLINS

A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its cons...
FRANCIS COLLINS

Faith is reason plus revelation, and the revelation part requires one to think with the spirit as we...
FRANCIS COLLINS

God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.
FRANCIS COLLINS

I took care of young adults with cystic fibrosis when I was in my residency training and found this ...
FRANCIS COLLINS

A cardinal principle that we must not stray from - no exceptions - is that your genetic information ...
FRANCIS COLLINS

I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that a...
FRANCIS COLLINS

These revelations arrive almost five years early from the original predictions of not having this in...
FRANCIS COLLINS

Four years ago, we took down the book called Homo sapiens, ... Today, we take down the book next to ...
FRANCIS COLLINS

Sequencing the chimp genome is a historic achievement that is destined to lead to many more exciting...
FRANCIS COLLINS

As our closest relatives, they (chimpanzees) tell us special things about what it means to be a prim...
FRANCIS COLLINS

It's a huge deal. We now have the instruction book of our closest relative.
FRANCIS COLLINS

We can peek into evolution's lab notebook and see what went on there.
FRANCIS COLLINS

FTIs, originally developed for cancer, are capable of reversing the dramatic nuclear structure abnor...
FRANCIS COLLINS

I was vaguely aware that same of those around me thought that this pairing of explorations was contr...
FRANCIS S. COLLINS

If God is real, I'm going to be sadly disappointed in Science...
FRANCIS

“Everytime Illegal Immigration is brought up in the Good 'Ol U.S. of part of America, 'Native Amer...
FRANCIS

Family ain't blood or sharing a last name, Family are those who treat you like it.
FRANCIS

Humans come equipped with Bullshit.
FRANCIS

Our thoughts and dreams make this world, and reality is only as true as we perceive it to be.
FRANCIS

Friends let friends wear purple.
FRANCIS

It prolly' subscribes to some type of Personal Jesus, otherworldly devices, or a Higher Power...
FRANCIS

Mensa, n. Head case with delusions of grandeur.
FRANCIS

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
FRANCIS BACON

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has ...
POPE FRANCIS

The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and t...
POPE FRANCIS

Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
FRANCIS I

Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.
POPE FRANCIS

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
FRANCIS BACON

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
POPE FRANCIS

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not tr...
FRANCIS BACON

Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what...
POPE FRANCIS

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity...
FRANCIS BACON

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
FRANCIS BACON

Money has to serve, not to rule.
POPE FRANCIS

Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.
POPE FRANCIS

We all have the duty to do good.
POPE FRANCIS

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve ...
POPE FRANCIS

In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, R...
POPE FRANCIS

When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without ...
POPE FRANCIS

The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and b...
POPE FRANCIS

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv...
FRANCIS BACON

We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Be...
FRANCIS MAUDE

I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and p...
GENIE FRANCIS

Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON

Our God and Souldiers we alike adore,Evn at the Brink of danger; not before:After deliverance, both ...
FRANCIS QUARLES

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
FRANCIS PICABIA

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him...
FRANCIS BACON

To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body...
FRANCIS BOWEN

I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human ...
FRANCIS CHAN

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
POPE FRANCIS

Manchester was a fantastic place to go out in. There were 10 clubs with world-class cabaret and come...
FRANCIS LEE

My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.
FRANCIS ASBURY

We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie.
FRANCIS PARKMAN

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with d...
FRANCIS BACON

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
FRANCIS BACON

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider...
FRANCIS BACON

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
FRANCIS BACON

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
FRANCIS BACON

Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cott...
FRANCIS PARKMAN

Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother. [Lat., Religio peperit divit...
FRANCIS BACON

The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.
FRANCIS BACON

There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion dot...
FRANCIS BACON

But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.
FRANCIS BACON

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and co...
FRANCIS BACON

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
FRANCIS PICABIA

A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds ...
FRANCIS BACON

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
FRANCIS PICABIA

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
FRANCIS BACON

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
FRANCIS BACON

Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
FRANCIS BACON

Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is...
FRANCIS CRAWFORD

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea fir...
FRANCIS DARWIN

There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON

Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON

Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far...
FRANCIS BACON

One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs; where the small flies were caught,...
FRANCIS BACON

We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
FRANCIS BACON

Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the...
FRANCIS BACON

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
POPE FRANCIS

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.
FRANCIS QUARLES

Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for...
FRANCIS BACON

Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot de...
FRANCIS QUARLES

Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
FRANCIS BACON

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
FRANCIS QUARLES

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
FRANCIS QUARLES

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving...
FRANCIS QUARLES

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.
FRANCIS PICABIA

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
POPE FRANCIS

For knowledge, too, is itself a power. [Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]
FRANCIS BACON

Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up.
FRANCIS BACON

Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect.
FRANCIS BACON

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itsel...
FRANCIS BACON

If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
FRANCIS BACON

Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..
FRANCIS PICABIA

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
FRANCIS HUTCHESON

Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is ha...
QUARLES FRANCIS

So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top. [Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virg...
FRANCIS BACON

States are great engines moving slowly.
FRANCIS BACON

They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body;...
FRANCIS BACON

All beliefs are bald ideas.
FRANCIS PICABIA

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and soli...
FRANCIS BACON

Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
FRANCIS KEPPEL

Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have b...
FRANCIS ATTERBURY

They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made ...
FRANCIS ATTERBURY

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from when...
FRANCIS ATTERBURY

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused m...
FRANCIS BACON

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin wit...
FRANCIS BACON

Lukewarm living and claiming Christ's name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.
FRANCIS CHAN

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
FRANCIS BACON

The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss;...
FRANCIS BACON

Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.
DICK FRANCIS

Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
FRANCIS BACON

If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to ...
FRANCIS BACON

No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
FRANCIS BACON

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.
FRANCIS BACON

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
FRANCIS BACON

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must...
FRANCIS BACON

The essence of a man is found in his faults.
FRANCIS PICABIA

For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
FRANCIS THOMPSON

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And per...
FRANCIS THOMPSON

Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equalit...
FRANCIS PICABIA

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
FRANCIS PICABIA

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
FRANCIS PICABIA

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, a...
FRANCIS QUARLES

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the b...
FRANCIS BACON

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
FRANCIS BACON

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend...
FRANCIS BACON

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
FRANCIS BACON

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal,...
FRANCIS BACON

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
FRANCIS BACON

All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from...
FRANCIS BACON

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what ...
FRANCIS BACON

There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy...
FRANCIS BACON

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
FRANCIS BACON

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their f...
FRANCIS BACON

Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil...
FRANCIS BACON

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great ent...
FRANCIS BACON

An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
FRANCIS THOMPSON

No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say ma...
FRANCIS LOCKIER

Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou...
FRANCIS QUARLES

Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy ...
CLARENCE FRANCIS

Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be de...
FRANCIS BACON

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom driv...
FRANCIS BACON

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
FRANCIS BACON

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is mor...
BRENDAN FRANCIS

The road to perseverance lies by doubt.
FRANCIS QUARLES

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge ...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
FRANCIS BACON

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the...
FRANCIS BACON

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
FRANCIS QUARLES

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
FRANCIS PICABIA

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
FRANCIS CRAWFORD

Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.
FRANCIS THOMPSON

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.
FRANCIS QUARLES

I think history would say that medical research has, throughout many changes of parties, remained as one of the shining lights of bipartisan agreement, that people are concerned about health for themselves, for their families, for their constituents.

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I think history would say that medical research has, throughout many changes of parties, remained as one of the shining lights of bipartisan agreement, that people are concerned about health for themselves, for their families, for their constituents.

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