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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have this idea of trying to catalog all the genes on the planet. "

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

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

" You cannot look at a person's genes and say with any accuracy whether they are from one racial group or another. "

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

" It takes 10 kilograms of grain to produce one kilogram of beef, 15 liters of water to get one kilogram of beef, and those cows produce a lot of methane. Why not get rid of the cows? "

" When most people talk about biofuels, they talk about using oils or grease from plants. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Sailing is a big outlet for me. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Race has no genetic or scientific basis. "

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

" It's quite comforting to me as an individualist that we're not very close to being clones of one other. "

" I've made money by just trying to do world-class science. That's the goal that we're setting at Celera. If we do world-class science and create new medicine paradigms, the money will more than follow at a corporate level and at a personal level. "

" I spent 10 years trying to find one gene. "

" The gene 'klotho' was named after the Greek Fate purported to spin the thread of life, because it contributes to longevity. "

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

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

" 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. "

" There's a constant debate over nature or nurture - they're inseparable. "

" If I had a weak ego, and doubts about this, the first genome would not yet have been completed with US and UK government funding. "

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