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

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

" 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. "

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

" Early on, when you're working in a new area of science, you have to think about all the pitfalls and things that could lead you to believe that you had done something when you hadn't, and, even worse, leading others to believe it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Now that we can read and write the genetic code, put it in digital form and translate it back into synthesized life, it will be possible to speed up biological evolution to the pace of social evolution. "

" We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 cannot look at a person's genes and say with any accuracy whether they are from one racial group or another. "

" Carole Lartigue led the effort to actually transplant a bacterial chromosome from one bacteria to another. "

" I naively thought that we could have a molecular definition for life, come up with a set of genes that would minimally define life. Nature just refuses to be so easily quantified. "

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

" The rich agricultural nations are the ones that can adapt to the new biotechnologies. "

" 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. "

" Fred Sanger was one of the most important scientists of the 20th century. "

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

" The future of society is 100% dependent on scientific advances. "

" I am confident that life once thrived on Mars and may well still exist there today. "

" 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. "

" When most people talk about biofuels, they talk about using oils or grease from plants. "

" 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. "

" Synthetic biology can help address key challenges facing the planet and its population. Research in synthetic biology may lead to new things such as programmed cells that self-assemble at the sites of disease to repair damage. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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