I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.

Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.

Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.

Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.

Data-intensive graph problems abound in the Life Science drug discovery and development process.

I think science is about the search for God; it just comes at it from a different angle than religion.

Science has killed religion. There's no hope for the future with seven billion of us on the planet, and the only thing you can do is to laugh in the face of it all.

I resist the idea of there being on-screen chemistry. I think it's something that people like to say without thinking.