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" Science should be the most fun job on the planet. You get to ask questions about the world around you and go out and seek the answers. Not to have fun doing that is crazy. "
Craig Venter
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" It's quite comforting to me as an individualist that we're not very close to being clones of one other. "
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" Life was so cheap in Vietnam. That is where my sense of urgency comes from. "
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" A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease. "
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" The interpretation of medicine today is 'do your clinical values fall within a normal range?' Everything in the globe right now is in the law of averages, which mean absolutely nothing to individuals. "
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" I suppose if there's a set of genes I have, it's detesting authority. "
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" The mouse genome is an invaluable tool to interpret the human genome. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Space X's Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars with modules where earthlings can live. My teleporting technology is the number one way those individuals will get new information, new treatments of diseases that will occur on the planet, and new food sources. "
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" We all evolved out of the same three or four groups in Africa, as black Africans. "
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" We can create new ways to create clean water. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Most people don't realize it, because they're invisible, but microbes make up about a half of the Earth's biomass, whereas all animals only make up about one one-thousandth of all the biomass. "
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" 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. "
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