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

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" The pace of digitizing life has been increasing exponentially. "

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" 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. "

" People want to protect the territory that they have, and they're very threatened by change. That's not true for all of scientists, but you know, fortunately, the scientific community moves forward in a conservative fashion. "

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" Genomics are about individuals. It's about what's specific to you, not your siblings, not your parents - each of us is totally unique. We will only see that uniqueness by drilling down to the genetic code. "

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" 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. "

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" Mathematicians have been hiding and writing messages in the genetic code for a long time, but it's clear they were mathematicians and not biologists because, if you write long messages with the code that the mathematicians developed, it would more than likely lead to new proteins being synthesized with unknown functions. "

" We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't see any absolute biological limit on human age. "

" 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. "

" Nobel prizes are very special prizes, and it would be great to get one. "

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

" I've gotten some pretty nice awards. I'm having trouble finding places to put them all. "

" We're a country of laws and rules, and the Supreme Court has ruled that life forms are patentable entities. "

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

" 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. "

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

" It takes 10 kilograms of grain to produce one kilogram of beef, 15 liters of water to get one kilogram of beef, and those cows produce a lot of methane. Why not get rid of the cows? "