Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

If you ignore what a man desires, and you deny the very source of his power.

With the limited knowledge I have of the situation, I would not have signed the petition.