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1. "The word 'living' has so many connotations that I'm almost reluctant to try to define it scientifically because it sounds as if I'm then downgrading all the other significances of that word." ~ Francis Collins
2. "A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run." ~ Francis Collins
3. "As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data." ~ Francis Collins
4. "I'm a pretty informal guy. I ride a Harley." ~ Francis Collins
5. "I'm a serious Christian. I take my faith seriously. I try to practice it every day of the week, not just on Sunday." ~ Francis Collins
6. "I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had." ~ Francis Collins
7. "Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a disaster and all your hypotheses are wrong." ~ Francis Collins
8. "Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you're not misleading yourself, science is the way to do it." ~ Francis Collins
9. "Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is." ~ Francis Collins
10. "So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not." ~ Francis Collins
11. "The best diet is the one that can be sustained over the long term, combined with other healthful lifestyle behaviors." ~ Francis Collins
12. "We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable." ~ Francis Collins
13. "What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head?" ~ Francis Collins
14. "God is an awesome mathematician and physicist." ~ Francis Collins
15. "One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron." ~ Francis Collins
16. "If God is real, and I believe he is, then he is outside of nature. He is, therefore, not limited by the laws of nature in the way that we are." ~ Francis Collins
17. "A virus is not just DNA; a virus is also packaged up, covered over with a series of proteins in a nice, elegant, well-compacted form." ~ Francis Collins
18. "I believe in the literal rising of the body of Christ. It's the cornerstone of my Christian faith." ~ Francis Collins
19. "I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me." ~ Francis Collins
20. "In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one." ~ Francis Collins
21. "Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith." ~ Francis Collins
22. "To get our universe, with all of its potential for complexities or any kind of potential for any kind of life-form, everything has to be precisely defined on this knife edge of improbability…. [Y]ou have to see the hands of a creator who set the parameters to be just so because the creator was interested in something a little more complicated than random particles." ~ Francis Collins

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Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises."
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