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

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

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

" The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Race has no genetic or scientific basis. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Your age is your No. 1 risk factor for almost every disease, but it's not a disease itself. "

" We're moving from reading the genetic code to writing it. "

" 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. "

" Most people don't realize it, because they're invisible, but microbes make up about a half of the Earth's biomass, whereas all animals only make up about one one-thousandth of all the biomass. "

" Organisms in the ocean provide over 40 percent of the oxygen we breathe, and they're the major sink for capturing all the carbon dioxide we constantly release into the atmosphere. "

" San Francisco is one of my favorite cities on the planet. "

" There is a long history of how DNA sequencing can bring certainty to people's lives. "

" In the past, geneticists have looked at so-called disease genes, but a lot of people have changes in their genes and don't get these diseases. There have to be other parts of physiology and genetics that compensate. "

" The day is not far off when we will be able to send a robotically controlled genome-sequencing unit in a probe to other planets to read the DNA sequence of any alien microbe life that may be there. "

" The Janus-like nature of innovation - its responsible use and so on - was evident at the very birth of human ingenuity, when humankind first discovered how to make fire on demand. "

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

" Knowing what your parents have gives you hints of things, but your genome is a totally unique combination of and interchange of DNA from your parents. There is no one else like you genetically. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" When I started my Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego, I was told that it would be difficult to make a new discovery in biology because it was all known. It all seems so absurd now. "

" We need 10,000 genomes, not 100, to start to understand the link between genetics, disease and wellness. "

" 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. "

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