One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Bio: David Reich is a geneticist whose research focuses on finding complex genetic patterns that cause susceptibility to common diseases among populations. He is professor in the department of genetics at the Harvard Medical School, and an associate of the Broad Institute.