“As we began discussing authorship of a white paper summarizing our conclusions, we debated who our target audience should be and what kind of outcome we were hoping to achieve.”

“in 2011, Rachel and I founded a company called Caribou Biosciences to commercialize the Cas proteins.”

“Editas Medicine has an exclusive multimillion-dollar license with Juno Therapeutics to develop T cell therapies”

“we founded Editas Medicine with $43 million in financing from three venture capital firms.”

“have no doubt, this technology will someday, somewhere be used to change the genome of our own species in ways that are heritable, forever altering the genetic composition of human kind.”

“Its not that I was categorically opposed to the idea of scientists and physicians using gene editing to introduce heritable changes into the human genome.”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettie...”

“To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ”

“The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.”