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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. "

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" I'm hoping that these next 20 years will show what we did 20 years ago in sequencing the first human genome, was the beginning of the health revolution that will have more positive impact in people's lives than any other health event in history. "

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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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" My greatest fear is not the abuse of technology but that we will not use it at all. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Life was so cheap in Vietnam. That is where my sense of urgency comes from. "

" 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. "

" People think genes are an absolute cause of traits. But the notion that the genome is the blueprint for humanity is a very bad metaphor. If you think we're hard-wired and deterministic, there should indeed be a lot more genes. "

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

" Darwin didn't walk around the Galapagos and come up with the theory of evolution. He was exploring, collecting, making observations. It wasn't until he got back and went through the samples that he noticed the differences among them and put them in context. "

" We can create new food substances. "

" I have a blend of klotho gene variants that have been linked with a lower risk for coronary artery disease and stroke and an advantage in longevity. "

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

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

" When most people talk about biofuels, they talk about using oils or grease from plants. "

" 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. "

" For each gene in your genome, you quite often get a different version of that gene from your father and a different version from your mother. We need to study these relationships across a very large number of people. "

" I've gotten some pretty nice awards. I'm having trouble finding places to put them all. "

" Now that we can read and write the genetic code, put it in digital form and translate it back into synthesized life, it will be possible to speed up biological evolution to the pace of social evolution. "

" We can create new ways to create clean water. "

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

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

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

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

" I am not sure our brains and our psychologies are ready for immortality. "

" 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. "