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" Intellectual property is a key aspect for economic development. "

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" The same oil that gets burned as fuel is also the entire basis for the petrochemical industries, so our clothing, our plastics and our pharmaceuticals all come from oil and its derivatives. "

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

" Darwin didn't walk around the Galapagos and come up with the theory of evolution. He was exploring, collecting, making observations. It wasn't until he got back and went through the samples that he noticed the differences among them and put them in context. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People think genes are an absolute cause of traits. But the notion that the genome is the blueprint for humanity is a very bad metaphor. If you think we're hard-wired and deterministic, there should indeed be a lot more genes. "

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

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

" Our genomes are evolving and changing every single day. "

" There's not going to be any one replacement for oil: we need to have hundreds of solutions to this global issue. "

" The chemistry from compounds in the environment is orders of magnitude more complex than our best chemists can produce. "

" Companies, cities, and potentially even individuals could have a small refinery to make their own fuel. "

" Is my science of a level consistent with other people who have gotten the Nobel? Yes. "

" That's the nice thing about the field of science - the test of time sorts out the truth. "

" 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. "

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

" Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment. "

" You can't have life without the genetic code. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Space X's Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars with modules where earthlings can live. My teleporting technology is the number one way those individuals will get new information, new treatments of diseases that will occur on the planet, and new food sources. "

" Science should be the most fun job on the planet. You get to ask questions about the world around you and go out and seek the answers. Not to have fun doing that is crazy. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "