"His groundbreaking work has changed the very ways we consider our health and examine disease." -- President Barack Obama

"The future of customized medicine is in your DNA; don't wait until you are sick to learn why." -- Dr. Mehmet Oz, author of You: The Owner's Manual

"With fluid prose and compelling narratives, Francis Collins makes modern medical science vivid and accessible. This book sets out hope without hype, and will enrich the mind and uplift the heart." -- Jerome Groopman, M.D., Recanati Professor, Harvard Medical School, Author of How Doctors Think

"Man's knowledge of man is undergoing the greatest revolution since Leonardo, and Francis Collins is at the leading edge of it. I am a better doctor today because Dr. Collins was my genetics professor in medical school, and now, the world gets to benefit from his wisdom by reading The Language of Life." -- Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Neurosurgeon at Emory University and Chief Medical Correspondent for CNN