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

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" The only 'afterlife' is what other people remember of you. "

" We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations. "

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

" The interpretation of medicine today is 'do your clinical values fall within a normal range?' Everything in the globe right now is in the law of averages, which mean absolutely nothing to individuals. "

" When you do cross-breeding of plants, you're doing this blind experiment where you're just mixing DNA of different types of cells and just seeing what comes out of it. "

" Since my own genome was sequenced, my software has been broadcast into space in the form of electromagnetic waves, carrying my genetic information far beyond Earth. Whether there is any creature out there capable of making sense of the instructions in my genome, well, that's another question. "

" We all evolved out of the same three or four groups in Africa, as black Africans. "

" Nobel prizes are very special prizes, and it would be great to get one. "

" Organisms in the ocean provide over 40 percent of the oxygen we breathe, and they're the major sink for capturing all the carbon dioxide we constantly release into the atmosphere. "

" We're moving from reading the genetic code to writing it. "

" You can imagine: 99 percent of your experiments fail for one reason or another. "

" There's not going to be any one replacement for oil: we need to have hundreds of solutions to this global issue. "

" My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body. "

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

" The problem with existing biology is you change only one or two genes at a time. "

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

" We need 10,000 genomes, not 100, to start to understand the link between genetics, disease and wellness. "

" I wrote an editorial piece in 'Science' about the nightly data release and how I thought it was bad for science as a field, I think a few years before Celera was formed. "

" That's the nice thing about the field of science - the test of time sorts out the truth. "

" We're a country of laws and rules, and the Supreme Court has ruled that life forms are patentable entities. "

" The Janus-like nature of innovation - its responsible use and so on - was evident at the very birth of human ingenuity, when humankind first discovered how to make fire on demand. "

" The leading edge of the best science in the world is being driven by private money, and investment money because of the scarcity of government money to do this. It's not only by far the best and most advanced science, we're driving the equation at Human Longevity that everyone else is beginning to follow as well. "

" You'd need a very specialized electron microscope to get down to the level to actually see a single strand of DNA. "

" The mouse genome is an invaluable tool to interpret the human genome. "

" Once we all have our genomes, some of these extremely rare diseases are going to be totally predictable. "

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

" One of the things about genetics that has become clearer as we've done genomes - as we've worked our way through the evolutionary tree, including humans - is that we're probably much more genetic animals than we want to confess we are. "

" It turns out synthesizing DNA is very difficult. There are tens of thousands of machines around the world that make small pieces of DNA - 30 to 50 letters in length - and it's a degenerate process, so the longer you make the piece, the more errors there are. "

" You can't have life without the genetic code. "