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" Accuracy in the genetic field will be essential. Errors in testing could be disastrous. "

" A doctor can save maybe a few hundred lives in a lifetime. A researcher can save the whole world. "

" Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature. "

" A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease. "

" As a scientist, I clearly see the potential for harnessing the power of nature. "

" As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design. "

" 'Bloomberg's, you know, for people who don't use the service, provides through the Internet - through specialized computers - information about the financial world. It's a very large data base. I think they have on the order of a billion dollars or more a year in revenue. "

" Carole Lartigue led the effort to actually transplant a bacterial chromosome from one bacteria to another. "

" Cells will die in minutes to days if they lack their genetic information system. They will not evolve, they will not replicate, and they will not live. "

" Companies, cities, and potentially even individuals could have a small refinery to make their own fuel. "

" Creating life at the speed of light is part of a new industrial revolution. Manufacturing will shift from centralised factories to a distributed, domestic manufacturing future, thanks to the rise of 3D printer technology. "

" Darwin didn't walk around the Galapagos and come up with the theory of evolution. He was exploring, collecting, making observations. It wasn't until he got back and went through the samples that he noticed the differences among them and put them in context. "

" Each part of our genome is unique. We would not be alive if there was not a single mathematical solution for our chromosomes. We would just be scrambled goo. "

" Early on, when you're working in a new area of science, you have to think about all the pitfalls and things that could lead you to believe that you had done something when you hadn't, and, even worse, leading others to believe it. "

" Energy is probably the most pressing demand on our planet. "

" Ethanol's not an ideal fuel. "

" Even though people pretend that medical records are privileged information, anyone can already get their hands on them. "

" 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. "

" Everybody is looking for a naturally occurring algae that is going to be a miracle cell to save the world, and after a century of looking, people still haven't found it. "

" Every single cancer is a genetic disease. Not necessarily inherited from your parents, but it's genetic changes which cause cancer. So as we sequence the genomes of tumours and compare those to the sequence of patients, we're getting down to the fundamental basis of each individual person's cancer. "

" For each gene in your genome, you quite often get a different version of that gene from your father and a different version from your mother. We need to study these relationships across a very large number of people. "

" Fred Sanger was one of the most important scientists of the 20th century. "

The Most Important

" Genes can't possibly explain all of what makes us what we are. "

" Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment. "

" Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so you can make a lot of iterations of something and test them. "

" Genomics are about individuals. It's about what's specific to you, not your siblings, not your parents - each of us is totally unique. We will only see that uniqueness by drilling down to the genetic code. "

" How we understand our own selves and how we work with our DNA software has implications that will affect everything from vaccine development to new approaches to antibiotics, new sources of food, new sources of chemicals, even potentially new sources of energy. "

" Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short. "

" I am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environment. "

" I am confident that life once thrived on Mars and may well still exist there today. "

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