39 Quotes by John Sulston

When it came to choice of subjects, science was obvious - since I was uninterested in anything else - but a decision that caused consternation in some eyes was my demand to take biology for A-level.

The fact is that proprietary databases don't work for such basic and broadly needed information as the sequence of the human genome.

Many people thought that, given my knowledge of the egg, I should analyse embryonic mutants.

Muriel, my mother, was my main confidant. She was a teacher of English at Watford grammar school but took a break while my sister Madeleine and I were children. She held court in the kitchen, and we talked about everything.

On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford.

I would say if we can select children who are not going to be severely disadvantaged, then we should do so, but I think it has to be done by voluntary choice.

I don't want a few extra weeks of life at enormous cost, for example, when it comes to the end.

I don't think one ought to bring a clearly disabled child into the world.

We can choose to address the twin issues of population and consumption to rebalance the use of resources to a more egalitarian pattern of consumption.