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

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

" We can do genetics. We can do experiments on fruit flies. We can do experiments on yeast. It's not so easy to do experiments on humans. So, in fact, it helps us, to interpret our own genetic code, to have the genetic code of the other species. "

" I have a blend of klotho gene variants that have been linked with a lower risk for coronary artery disease and stroke and an advantage in longevity. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I think I'm a survivor. I could have suffered at least 100 professional deaths. I could come up with a list of the 100 times I've come closest to death, from having pneumonia as a child to car crashes. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" We can create new food substances. "

" 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. "

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

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

" We find all kinds of species that have taken up a second chromosome or a third one from somewhere, adding thousands of new traits in a second to that species. So, people who think of evolution as just one gene changing at a time have missed much of biology. "

" It appears that the human genome does indeed contain deserts, or large, gene-poor regions. "

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

" 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. "

" There's a lot of what I call 'bio-babble' and hype out there from a lot of bioenergy companies. "

" Sailing is a big outlet for me. "

" Ethanol's not an ideal fuel. "

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

" 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. "

" I suppose if there's a set of genes I have, it's detesting authority. "

" 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. "

" Life is a DNA software system. "

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