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" My complaint is that there are more books and news articles than there are primary scientific papers. I am probably the biggest critic of the hypesters, because it's dangerous when fields get overhyped. "

Craig Venter

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" One of the fundamental discoveries I made about myself - early enough to make use of it - was that I am driven to seize life and to understand it. The motor that pushes me is propelled by more than scientific curiosity. "

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

" How we understand our own selves and how we work with our DNA software has implications that will affect everything from vaccine development to new approaches to antibiotics, new sources of food, new sources of chemicals, even potentially new sources of energy. "

" Accuracy in the genetic field will be essential. Errors in testing could be disastrous. "

" 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. "

" People are comprised of sets of DNA from each parent. If you looked at just the DNA from your father, it wouldn't tell you who you really are. "

" There's a lot of what I call 'bio-babble' and hype out there from a lot of bioenergy companies. "

" One of the things about genetics that has become clearer as we've done genomes - as we've worked our way through the evolutionary tree, including humans - is that we're probably much more genetic animals than we want to confess we are. "

" Energy is probably the most pressing demand on our planet. "

" Once we all have our genomes, some of these extremely rare diseases are going to be totally predictable. "

" 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. "

" Life is a DNA software system. "

" The only 'afterlife' is what other people remember of you. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" One important part of scientific training is that scientists learn the boundaries, the safety issues, how to properly deal with and dispose of chemicals and reagents. "

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

" You can't have life without the genetic code. "

" 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. "

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" In a biological system, the software builds its own hardware, but design is critical, and if you start with digital information, it has to be really accurate. "

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

" Society and medicine treat us all as members of populations, whereas as individuals we are all unique, and population statistics do not apply. "

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" People think that Celera's trying to patent the whole human genome because it's been used as - I guess people in Washington learn how to do political attacks, and so it gets used as a political weapon, not as a factual one. "

" I was a horrible student. I really hated school. "

" 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. "

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