I think something very simple that everybody can do is they can participate in medical research as subjects. Personal genome project, for example, will take on as many subjects as we can find.

Your genetics is not your destiny.

I am 3.8 percent Neanderthal. One of my ancestors mated with a Neanderthal, and I am not embarrassed by that.

Letting the tundra melt is the equivalent to burning all of the forests in all of the world and their roots two and a half times over.

I don't actually believe there's any such thing as privacy.

My laboratory and my obsession is about safety and building/engineering safety. It's not just a matter of saying we want the world to be safer; we have to create technology.