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.

I’m a pretty informal guy. I ride a Harley.

A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences – and underestimated in the long run.

I’m aware there are certain products that are being advertised – food products – with ‘no chemicals whatsoever.’ Well, that would be pretty hard to arrange, since everything around us is made up of atoms and molecules – chemicals – including ourselves.

In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don’t expect to see one.

Successful weight management really means a permanent change in lifestyle – and success in this arena provides that person with a great opportunity to model that behavior for friends and family.

People who are in a position of finding out that they’re at risk for some illness, whether it’s breast cancer, or heart disease, are afraid to get that information – even though it might be useful to them – because of fears that they’ll lose their health insurance or their job.

We give our kids vaccinations. That’s a biological enhancement that’s considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.

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

Prayer is, for me, not an opportunity to ask God to do stuff for me. Prayer is an opportunity to open myself, to try and understand his will, and oftentimes it’s a prayer of thanksgiving, and sometimes it’s a prayer of supplication, and sometimes it is just worship.