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" 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. "

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

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

" I'm hoping that these next 20 years will show what we did 20 years ago in sequencing the first human genome, was the beginning of the health revolution that will have more positive impact in people's lives than any other health event in history. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective. "

" 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. "

" The interpretation of medicine today is 'do your clinical values fall within a normal range?' Everything in the globe right now is in the law of averages, which mean absolutely nothing to individuals. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Life is a DNA software system. "

" It's very expensive to treat chronic diseases. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People think they're making individual decisions for themselves and their family not to get vaccinated. It's not just an individual choice - you're a hazard to society. "

" I've had a very unusual background in science - not the usual route of planning on being a scientist from age 3. I think my story shows that success is more about personal motivation and determination than it is about where you were born or what your economic status was. "

" People think that Celera's trying to patent the whole human genome because it's been used as - I guess people in Washington learn how to do political attacks, and so it gets used as a political weapon, not as a factual one. "

" I was a surf bum wannabe. I left home at age 17 and moved to Southern California to try to take up surfing as a vocation, but this was in 1964, and there was this nasty little thing called the Vietnam War. As a result, I got drafted. "

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

" I have an unusual type of thinking. I have no visual memory whatsoever. Everything is conceptual to me. "

" Show me a highly successful person in any field that has gotten there having a weak ego. You have to believe in yourself, and you have to believe in what you're doing. "

" 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. "

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

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

" If I could change the science system, my prescription for changing the whole thing would be organising it around big goals and building teams to do it. "