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

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

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

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

" There have been lots of stories written about all the hype over getting the genome done and the letdown of not discovering lots of cures right after. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Knowing what your parents have gives you hints of things, but your genome is a totally unique combination of and interchange of DNA from your parents. There is no one else like you genetically. "

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

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

" I see, in the future, bioengineered almost everything you can imagine that we use. "