Your genome isn't really secret.

- Bill Maris

Living in your genome is the history of our species.

- Barry Schuler

Cancer is a disease of the genome. And that's what happens. You make mistakes in a cell somewhere in your body that causes it to start to grow when it should've stopped, and that's cancer. And those mistakes are mistakes of DNA.

- Francis Collins

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

- Francis Collins

Genomics is a new idea. Like the PC, it's not obvious at first that anyone would want one. It's like, 'Hey, we've already got one genome, why do we need more?'

- George M. Church

I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.

- James D. Watson

I am thrilled to see my genome.

- James D. Watson

I didn't want my genome to be sequenced by any of the companies that were out there doing the partial sequences just from the point of view of commercialisation.

- Leroy Hood

Genome sequencing has changed taxonomy.

- Richard Dawkins

Heritability pertains to the entirety of the genome, not to a single gene.

- Steven Pinker

Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.

- W. Daniel Hillis