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

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" My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body. "

" That's the nice thing about the field of science - the test of time sorts out the truth. "

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

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

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

" I spent 10 years trying to find one gene. "

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

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

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

" It appears that the human genome does indeed contain deserts, or large, gene-poor regions. "

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

" When you do cross-breeding of plants, you're doing this blind experiment where you're just mixing DNA of different types of cells and just seeing what comes out of it. "

" The same oil that gets burned as fuel is also the entire basis for the petrochemical industries, so our clothing, our plastics and our pharmaceuticals all come from oil and its derivatives. "

" 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. "

" Race has no genetic or scientific basis. "

" 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. "

" 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 think I'm a survivor. I could have suffered at least 100 professional deaths. I could come up with a list of the 100 times I've come closest to death, from having pneumonia as a child to car crashes. "

" There are still so many questions to answer about the workings of the human body and, most mysterious of all, it is influenced by our state of mind. "

" A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease. "

" We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Carole Lartigue led the effort to actually transplant a bacterial chromosome from one bacteria to another. "

" You'd need a very specialized electron microscope to get down to the level to actually see a single strand of DNA. "

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

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

" When you think of all the things that are made from oil or in the chemical industry, if in the future we could find cells to replace most of those processes, the ideal way would be to do it by direct design. "