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" 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. "

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" There are still so many questions to answer about the workings of the human body and, most mysterious of all, it is influenced by our state of mind. "

Craig Venter

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" A doctor can save maybe a few hundred lives in a lifetime. A researcher can save the whole world. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" There are enzymes called restriction enzymes that actually digest DNA. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The fact that I have a risk genetically for Alzheimer's and blindness is not great news. But the reality is that any one of us will have dozens of these risks, and what we have to learn is how to deal with them. "

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

" The photosynthesis we see with plants is not very efficient. Algaes are more efficient. "

Craig Venter

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Efficient

" Part of the problem with the discovery of the so-called breast-cancer genes was that physicians wrongly told women that had the genetic changes associated with the genes that they had a 99% chance of getting breast cancer. Turns out all women that have these genetic changes don't get breast cancer. "

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

" 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. "

" As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Craig Venter

Science

You

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The Anthropocentic Age - the first age in which humankind is the dominant species on the planet - cuts both ways: it is up to us to destroy or save the planet. We certainly have the ability. "

" 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. "

" Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code. "

" If you have lung cancer, the most important thing you can know is your genetic code. "

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

" We have 100 genes or so, which we know we can't knock out without killing the cell, that are of unknown structure. "

" 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? "

" The Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed by the experience. I was one of the fortunate few who came out better off. "