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" Right now, oil is being isolated around the globe, and there is a major effort in shipping, trucking and otherwise transporting that oil around to a very finite number of refineries. Biology allows us to make these same fuels in a much more distributed fashion. "

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" The trouble is the field of science, medicine, universities, biotech companies - you name it - have been so splintered, layers, sub-divided, hacked that people can spend their entire career studying one tiny little cog of life. "

Craig Venter

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" 'Bloomberg's, you know, for people who don't use the service, provides through the Internet - through specialized computers - information about the financial world. It's a very large data base. I think they have on the order of a billion dollars or more a year in revenue. "

" Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so you can make a lot of iterations of something and test them. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Creating life at the speed of light is part of a new industrial revolution. Manufacturing will shift from centralised factories to a distributed, domestic manufacturing future, thanks to the rise of 3D printer technology. "

" We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations. "

" It takes 10 kilograms of grain to produce one kilogram of beef, 15 liters of water to get one kilogram of beef, and those cows produce a lot of methane. Why not get rid of the cows? "

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

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

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

" We have trouble feeding, providing fresh, clean water, medicines, fuel for the six and a half billion. It's going to be a stretch to do it for nine. "

" 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. "

" Sailing is a big outlet for me. "

Craig Venter

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" You cannot look at a person's genes and say with any accuracy whether they are from one racial group or another. "

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

" Our genomes are evolving and changing every single day. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment. "

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

" 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. "

" The fact that I have a risk genetically for Alzheimer's and blindness is not great news. But the reality is that any one of us will have dozens of these risks, and what we have to learn is how to deal with them. "

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

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

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

" We're moving from reading the genetic code to writing it. "

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

" 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. "

" When I started my Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego, I was told that it would be difficult to make a new discovery in biology because it was all known. It all seems so absurd now. "