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" 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. "

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" The fact that I have a risk genetically for Alzheimer's and blindness is not great news. But the reality is that any one of us will have dozens of these risks, and what we have to learn is how to deal with them. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" One of the things about genetics that has become clearer as we've done genomes - as we've worked our way through the evolutionary tree, including humans - is that we're probably much more genetic animals than we want to confess we are. "

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

" '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. "

" 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. "

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

" Life is a DNA software system. "

" 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. "

" Energy is probably the most pressing demand on our planet. "

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

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

" I thought we'd just sequence the genome once and that would be sufficient for most things in people's lifetimes. Now we're seeing how changeable and adaptable it is, which is why we're surviving and evolving as a species. "

" 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. "

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

" I wrote an editorial piece in 'Science' about the nightly data release and how I thought it was bad for science as a field, I think a few years before Celera was formed. "

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

" We have trouble feeding, providing fresh, clean water, medicines, fuel for the six and a half billion. It's going to be a stretch to do it for nine. "

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

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

" Part of the problem with the discovery of the so-called breast-cancer genes was that physicians wrongly told women that had the genetic changes associated with the genes that they had a 99% chance of getting breast cancer. Turns out all women that have these genetic changes don't get breast cancer. "

" I think future engineered species could be the source of food, hopefully a source of energy, environmental remediation and perhaps replacing the petrochemical industry. "

" When you do cross-breeding of plants, you're doing this blind experiment where you're just mixing DNA of different types of cells and just seeing what comes out of it. "

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

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

" One of the challenges with a government health system, like in the UK, with all of this data, is that you have a government making decisions on which treatments they'll pay for and which ones they won't. That's a dangerous, dangerous, place to get into society. "

" The trouble is the field of science, medicine, universities, biotech companies - you name it - have been so splintered, layers, sub-divided, hacked that people can spend their entire career studying one tiny little cog of life. "