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Francis Collins

American physician-scientist

United States · b. 1950

Science and medicine

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Question Who do you turn to when you need advice? Relationships read 13 other answers →

I surround myself with brilliant people who are wise and whose advice I can lean on at every possible moment. The Genome Project is a wonderful team effort. It’s not my project, this is a project that involves close to 1,000 scientists at institutions all over the world. The United States is taking a larger role than any other country, but many other countries are participating. In the U.S. we have a large number of genome centers. We have experts in almost every area. I have advisors who are willing to give up their time and energy to making sure we get there responsibly. It is a heavy load of responsibility, but I can share that load with people who are every bit as committed to the future of this endeavor as I am.

Recorded Academy of Achievement, Academy of Achievement interview, Bethesda, Maryland, 1 April 2000 source ↗

Question How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a favourite failure? Failure & regret read 72 other answers →

about 95% of the experiments we do are total failures, and that’s because we’re out there on the leading edge of what’s possible, and most of the time it isn’t quite possible.

Recorded Academy of Achievement, Academy of Achievement interview, Bethesda, Maryland, 1 April 2000 source ↗

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