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" 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. "

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" I turned 65 last year, and each year I get more and more interested in human health. For most people it happens around age 50, but I've always been a slow learner. It's critical in terms of the cost of health care. "

Craig Venter

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" 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. "

" There's a constant debate over nature or nurture - they're inseparable. "

" Sometime in the future, I am a hundred percent certain scientists will sit down at a computer terminal, design what they want the organism to do, and build it. "

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

" Intellectual property is a key aspect for economic development. "

" Mitochondrial DNA is in higher concentration, lasts longer, and can be extracted from bones. "

" The pace of digitizing life has been increasing exponentially. "

" Even with seemingly simple things like eye color, you can't tell from my genetic code whether I have blue eyes or not. So it's naive to think that complex human behaviors, like risk-seeking, are driven by changes in one or two genes. "

" Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective. "

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

Craig Venter

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" 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. "

" I have an unusual type of thinking. I have no visual memory whatsoever. Everything is conceptual to me. "

Craig Venter

Visual

Memory

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

" There's not going to be any one replacement for oil: we need to have hundreds of solutions to this global issue. "

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

" Since my own genome was sequenced, my software has been broadcast into space in the form of electromagnetic waves, carrying my genetic information far beyond Earth. Whether there is any creature out there capable of making sense of the instructions in my genome, well, that's another question. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Genes can't possibly explain all of what makes us what we are. "

" 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. "

" Fred Sanger was one of the most important scientists of the 20th century. "

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

" People want to protect the territory that they have, and they're very threatened by change. That's not true for all of scientists, but you know, fortunately, the scientific community moves forward in a conservative fashion. "

" I don't see any absolute biological limit on human age. "

" Nobel prizes are very special prizes, and it would be great to get one. "

" 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

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

" Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short. "