Language changes very fast.

You couldn't have human society without language.

I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.

Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.

We build scientific theories to organize and manipulate the world, to reduce phenomena into manageable units.

The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing.

It's inevitable that we'll have some form of designer children, fueled not just by the science but by parents' hard-wired desire to give their children every advantage.

There are so many aspects to science that I couldn't give up - the rigor, the discoveries, the teaching. The impact that science has on the world around us is something I'm enthralled with. I don't think anyone could ever take that out of me.