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" I am not sure our brains and our psychologies are ready for immortality. "

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

" 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. "

" I willed myself through a junior college to a university and, ultimately, a Ph.D. "

" Most people don't realize it, because they're invisible, but microbes make up about a half of the Earth's biomass, whereas all animals only make up about one one-thousandth of all the biomass. "

" 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. "

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

" Patents are basically rights to try and develop a commercial product. "

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

" San Francisco is one of my favorite cities on the planet. "

" Race has no genetic or scientific basis. "

" I think I've achieved some good things; doing the first genome in history - my team on that was phenomenal and all the things they pulled together; writing the first genome with a synthetic cell; my teams at the Venter Institute, Human Longevity, and before that Celera. "

" 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. "

" Is my science of a level consistent with other people who have gotten the Nobel? Yes. "

" I've gotten some pretty nice awards. I'm having trouble finding places to put them all. "

" Society and medicine treat us all as members of populations, whereas as individuals we are all unique, and population statistics do not apply. "

" Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code. "

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

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

" In the past, geneticists have looked at so-called disease genes, but a lot of people have changes in their genes and don't get these diseases. There have to be other parts of physiology and genetics that compensate. "

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

" If you have lung cancer, the most important thing you can know is your genetic code. "

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

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The future of society is 100% dependent on scientific advances. "

" My complaint is that there are more books and news articles than there are primary scientific papers. I am probably the biggest critic of the hypesters, because it's dangerous when fields get overhyped. "

" I hope I'll be remembered for my scientific contribution to understanding life and human life. "