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" If I had a weak ego, and doubts about this, the first genome would not yet have been completed with US and UK government funding. "

Craig Venter

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" It's very expensive to treat chronic diseases. "

" It turns out synthesizing DNA is very difficult. There are tens of thousands of machines around the world that make small pieces of DNA - 30 to 50 letters in length - and it's a degenerate process, so the longer you make the piece, the more errors there are. "

" I am confident that life once thrived on Mars and may well still exist there today. "

" 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. "

" We find all kinds of species that have taken up a second chromosome or a third one from somewhere, adding thousands of new traits in a second to that species. So, people who think of evolution as just one gene changing at a time have missed much of biology. "

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

" The photosynthesis we see with plants is not very efficient. Algaes are more efficient. "

Craig Venter

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

" 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? "

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

" We all evolved out of the same three or four groups in Africa, as black Africans. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" We have 100 genes or so, which we know we can't knock out without killing the cell, that are of unknown structure. "

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

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

" One of the things about genetics that has become clearer as we've done genomes - as we've worked our way through the evolutionary tree, including humans - is that we're probably much more genetic animals than we want to confess we are. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed by the experience. I was one of the fortunate few who came out better off. "

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