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" Making new petroleum should be as simple and straightforward as brewing beer. "
George M. Church
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" I'm a champion for personal differences. I have no sympathy for drug companies that can't figure out how to make personalized medicine. We could generalize that to 'All society should be much more personalized.' "
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" I like to keep the median age in my lab low because they will indulge me in my dreams. They don't yet think things are impossible. "
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" We have the ability to completely change our environment to go... to take on... to inherit, in a certain sense, things far beyond our DNA, and that's inheritable. And we can see evolution in action as our ideas evolve and undergo a kind of Darwinian selection not at the DNA level. And we can go off into space. "
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" Reversal of ageing is high on my list of things to do, and not just because I'm getting old. "
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Old
Getting Old
High
" It sounds a little bit too arrogant, but I think I certainly have a working model for how I conduct my life, and it may or may not be a correct worldview. "
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My Life
Think
Working
" Anytime you see somebody keeping a secret, that's symptomatic that something's wrong with the society around them. That means there's discrimination or worse. "
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Society
Wrong
Discrimination
" I think something very simple that everybody can do is they can participate in medical research as subjects. Personal genome project, for example, will take on as many subjects as we can find. "
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Think
Medical
Research
" I always loved computers - it's something inside you. "
George M. Church
Computers
You
Always
" Someone younger at heart should replace you, and that should be you. I'm willing to. I'm willing to become younger. I try to reinvent myself every few years anyway. "
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You
Become
Heart
" Science has very definite faith components, and most religions don't stick to faith. They venture out into making predictions about our physical world. They don't just say there's something that is completely unconnected to us. They say actually it affects a lot. And when they do that, they merge. "
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Science
They Say
" A few dozen changes to the genome of a modern elephant - to give it subcutaneous fat, woolly hair and sebaceous glands - might suffice to create a variation that is functionally similar to the mammoth. Returning this keystone species to the tundras could stave off some effects of warming. "
George M. Church
Fat
Elephant
Create
" I am 3.8 percent Neanderthal. One of my ancestors mated with a Neanderthal, and I am not embarrassed by that. "
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Embarrassed
I Am
Percent
" Terrorism is not a public health threat, relative to cancer and heart disease and malaria and so forth. "
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Threat
Heart
Health
" If you get very fine, accurate, and inexpensive control over your genome, you can fundamentally change the kind of organism you are. You are extending human capacity. "
George M. Church
You
Kind
Over
" In my lab, we are constantly asking, 'What's the utility of this pure science that we're doing? Let's nudge it a little bit in a direction where people can connect to it and have some fun and/or help some very serious problems they have.' "
George M. Church
Fun
Help
People
" The goal of getting your genome done is not to tell you what you will die from, but it's how to learn how to take action to prevent disease. "
George M. Church
Done
Goal
Learn
" If we can come up with a way of backing up my brain into another that I have in my back-pack, we'll do it. People talk themselves out of things very easily. Things that they think are a million years away, or never, are actually four years away. "
George M. Church
Brain
People
Talk
" Clearly, we are a species that is well connected to other species. Whether or not we evolve from them, we are certainly very closely related to them. A series of mutations could change us into all kinds of intermediate species. Whether or not those intermediate species are provably in the past, they could easily be in our future. "
George M. Church
Connected
Future
Past
" If we go into space, we need enhancements that handle radiation and osteoporosis... or else we're dead. So what seems like an enhancement in one generation becomes life and death in another generation. "
George M. Church
Need
Death
Space
" If society becomes comfortable with cloning and sees value in true human diversity, then the whole Neanderthal creature itself could be cloned by a surrogate mother chimp - or by an extremely adventurous female human. "
George M. Church
True
Value
Diversity
" We have a love affair with the idea of the 'natural,' even though we, as a species, are about as unnatural as you can imagine. "
George M. Church
Affair
Love
Natural
" It's all too easy to dismiss the future. People confuse what's impossible today with what's impossible tomorrow. "
George M. Church
Today
People
Future
" We might want to figure out what are the positive effects of autism - mild cases. "
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Autism
Figure
Out
" You should have personalized genomics, personalized physiology, personalized medicine, where each person's different, and each body is an integrated whole. "
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You
Person
Medicine
" The best way to predict the future is to change it. "
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Predict
Way
Future
" I would argue that we're not limited by actual DNA. You can re-create the ancient DNA by looking at the genomes of existing animals. "
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Animals
Ancient
Looking
" Our ancestors didn't need any genetic enhancements to be able to sit for twelve hours a day and eat fatty, sugary foods, but we need enhancements that handle that altered environment. "
George M. Church
Environment
Eat
Ancestors
" Most groups patent ways of using genetic discoveries as part of non-obvious diagnostic and therapeutic protocols and slightly or greatly altered genes. "
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Most
Genetic
Ways
" What I really wanted was for everybody to have their genome and, ideally, everybody to share their genome, and for that, we needed to bring the price way down. "
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Share
Down
Genome
" The goal of reanimation research is not to make perfect living copies of extinct organisms, nor is it meant to be a one-off stunt in a laboratory or zoo. Reanimation is about leveraging the best of ancient and synthetic DNA. "
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