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" I somewhat joke that I know an awful lot because I learn from my mistakes. I just make a lot of mistakes. It's OK to fail in science just as long as you have the successes to go with the failures. "

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" 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. "

Craig Venter

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

" Sometime in the future, I am a hundred percent certain scientists will sit down at a computer terminal, design what they want the organism to do, and build it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There are enzymes called restriction enzymes that actually digest DNA. "

" There are still so many questions to answer about the workings of the human body and, most mysterious of all, it is influenced by our state of mind. "

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

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

" We can now diagnose diseases that haven't even manifested in the patient, and may not until the fifth decade of life - if at all. "

" 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. "

" Mitochondrial DNA is in higher concentration, lasts longer, and can be extracted from bones. "

" '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. "

" The photosynthesis we see with plants is not very efficient. Algaes are more efficient. "

Craig Venter

Plants

Efficient

" Race has no genetic or scientific basis. "

" I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that we have one life on this planet. "

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

" 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. "

" Life was so cheap in Vietnam. That is where my sense of urgency comes from. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Life is a DNA software system. "

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

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

Craig Venter

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" I've always been fascinated with adrenaline; it's saved my life more than once, and it's caused me to need it to save my life more than once. One of the most fascinating responses in human evolution, adrenaline sharpens your brain; it sharpens your responses. "

Craig Venter

Life

My Life

" 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. "

" I was a horrible student. I really hated school. "