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" A doctor can save maybe a few hundred lives in a lifetime. A researcher can save the whole world. "
Craig Venter
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Doctor
Lifetime
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" Now that we can read and write the genetic code, put it in digital form and translate it back into synthesized life, it will be possible to speed up biological evolution to the pace of social evolution. "
Craig Venter
Digital
Speed
Life
" Even with seemingly simple things like eye color, you can't tell from my genetic code whether I have blue eyes or not. So it's naive to think that complex human behaviors, like risk-seeking, are driven by changes in one or two genes. "
Craig Venter
Think
Eye
Color
" Life was so cheap in Vietnam. That is where my sense of urgency comes from. "
Craig Venter
Urgency
Vietnam
Life
" I'm hoping that these next 20 years will show what we did 20 years ago in sequencing the first human genome, was the beginning of the health revolution that will have more positive impact in people's lives than any other health event in history. "
Craig Venter
Health
Positive
History
" That's the nice thing about the field of science - the test of time sorts out the truth. "
Craig Venter
Field
Nice
Science
" If there is a race, it is one to bring the benefits of genomes to human therapeutics. We all want to get there. We all want people to have much more meaningful and productive lives as they age. "
Craig Venter
More
Age
Human
" People are comprised of sets of DNA from each parent. If you looked at just the DNA from your father, it wouldn't tell you who you really are. "
Craig Venter
Father
You
People
" The Anthropocentic Age - the first age in which humankind is the dominant species on the planet - cuts both ways: it is up to us to destroy or save the planet. We certainly have the ability. "
Craig Venter
Destroy
Planet
Age
" The fact that I have a risk genetically for Alzheimer's and blindness is not great news. But the reality is that any one of us will have dozens of these risks, and what we have to learn is how to deal with them. "
Craig Venter
Great
News
Risks
" People equate patents with secrecy, that secrecy is what patents were designed to overcome. That's why the formula for Coca-Cola was never patented. They kept it as a trade secret, and they've outlasted patent laws by 80 years or more. "
Craig Venter
Never
People
Why
" My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body. "
Craig Venter
Found
Body
Genetic
" I was a surf bum wannabe. I left home at age 17 and moved to Southern California to try to take up surfing as a vocation, but this was in 1964, and there was this nasty little thing called the Vietnam War. As a result, I got drafted. "
Craig Venter
California
War
Try
" We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations. "
Craig Venter
Know
Genes
Virtually
" In a biological system, the software builds its own hardware, but design is critical, and if you start with digital information, it has to be really accurate. "
Craig Venter
Own
Start
Design
" We can now diagnose diseases that haven't even manifested in the patient, and may not until the fifth decade of life - if at all. "
Craig Venter
May
Decade
Even
" Patents are basically rights to try and develop a commercial product. "
Craig Venter
Try
Product
Commercial
" Transposons are just small pieces of DNA that randomly insert in the genetic code. And if they insert in the middle of the gene, they disrupt its function. "
Craig Venter
Just
DNA
Code
" We're a country of laws and rules, and the Supreme Court has ruled that life forms are patentable entities. "
Craig Venter
Rules
Supreme Court
Country
" I naively thought that we could have a molecular definition for life, come up with a set of genes that would minimally define life. Nature just refuses to be so easily quantified. "
Craig Venter
Just
Life
Genes
" My early years were hardly a model of focus, discipline, and direction. No one who met me as a teenager could have imagined my going into research and making important discoveries. No one could have predicted the arc of my career. "
Craig Venter
Research
Focus
Discipline
" Companies, cities, and potentially even individuals could have a small refinery to make their own fuel. "
Craig Venter
Make
Fuel
Small
" The trouble is the field of science, medicine, universities, biotech companies - you name it - have been so splintered, layers, sub-divided, hacked that people can spend their entire career studying one tiny little cog of life. "
Craig Venter
Name
Medicine
Life
" Right now, oil is being isolated around the globe, and there is a major effort in shipping, trucking and otherwise transporting that oil around to a very finite number of refineries. Biology allows us to make these same fuels in a much more distributed fashion. "
Craig Venter
Oil
Fashion
More
" Sometime in the future, I am a hundred percent certain scientists will sit down at a computer terminal, design what they want the organism to do, and build it. "
Craig Venter
Down
I Am
Want
" I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that we have one life on this planet. "
Craig Venter
Science
War
Think
" Is my science of a level consistent with other people who have gotten the Nobel? Yes. "
Craig Venter
People
Science
Consistent
" There's a lot of what I call 'bio-babble' and hype out there from a lot of bioenergy companies. "
Craig Venter
Lot
Call
Companies
" Traditional autobiography has generally had a poor press. The novelist Daphne du Maurier condemned all examples of this literary form as self-indulgent. Others have quipped that autobiography reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory. "
Craig Venter
Others
Nothing
Memory
" Mathematicians have been hiding and writing messages in the genetic code for a long time, but it's clear they were mathematicians and not biologists because, if you write long messages with the code that the mathematicians developed, it would more than likely lead to new proteins being synthesized with unknown functions. "
Craig Venter
Writing
New
You
" I am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environment. "
Craig Venter
Find
Environment
Space