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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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" Everybody is looking for a naturally occurring algae that is going to be a miracle cell to save the world, and after a century of looking, people still haven't found it. "

Craig Venter

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" Patents are basically rights to try and develop a commercial product. "

" I see, in the future, bioengineered almost everything you can imagine that we use. "

" Race has no genetic or scientific basis. "

" 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. "

" Show me a highly successful person in any field that has gotten there having a weak ego. You have to believe in yourself, and you have to believe in what you're doing. "

Craig Venter

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" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" Transposons are just small pieces of DNA that randomly insert in the genetic code. And if they insert in the middle of the gene, they disrupt its function. "

" 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'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. "

" Every single cancer is a genetic disease. Not necessarily inherited from your parents, but it's genetic changes which cause cancer. So as we sequence the genomes of tumours and compare those to the sequence of patients, we're getting down to the fundamental basis of each individual person's cancer. "

" Life is a DNA software system. "

" I've always been fascinated with adrenaline; it's saved my life more than once, and it's caused me to need it to save my life more than once. One of the most fascinating responses in human evolution, adrenaline sharpens your brain; it sharpens your responses. "

Craig Venter

Life

My Life

" 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. "

Craig Venter

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" Ethanol's not an ideal fuel. "

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

" 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. "

" Preventative medicine has to be the direction we go in. For example, if colon cancer is detected early - because a person knew he had a genetic risk and was having frequent exams - the surgery is relatively inexpensive and average survival is far greater than 10 years. "

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

" The chemistry from compounds in the environment is orders of magnitude more complex than our best chemists can produce. "

" Genomics are about individuals. It's about what's specific to you, not your siblings, not your parents - each of us is totally unique. We will only see that uniqueness by drilling down to the genetic code. "

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

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

" I think future engineered species could be the source of food, hopefully a source of energy, environmental remediation and perhaps replacing the petrochemical industry. "

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

" Cells will die in minutes to days if they lack their genetic information system. They will not evolve, they will not replicate, and they will not live. "

" I have this idea of trying to catalog all the genes on the planet. "