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

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" I've had a very unusual background in science - not the usual route of planning on being a scientist from age 3. I think my story shows that success is more about personal motivation and determination than it is about where you were born or what your economic status was. "

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

" I hope I'll be remembered for my scientific contribution to understanding life and human life. "

" Mathematicians have been hiding and writing messages in the genetic code for a long time, but it's clear they were mathematicians and not biologists because, if you write long messages with the code that the mathematicians developed, it would more than likely lead to new proteins being synthesized with unknown functions. "

" If there is a race, it is one to bring the benefits of genomes to human therapeutics. We all want to get there. We all want people to have much more meaningful and productive lives as they age. "

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

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

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

" I thought we'd just sequence the genome once and that would be sufficient for most things in people's lifetimes. Now we're seeing how changeable and adaptable it is, which is why we're surviving and evolving as a species. "

" One of the fundamental discoveries I made about myself - early enough to make use of it - was that I am driven to seize life and to understand it. The motor that pushes me is propelled by more than scientific curiosity. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" San Francisco is one of my favorite cities on the planet. "

" I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that we have one life on this planet. "

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

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

" There is a long history of how DNA sequencing can bring certainty to people's lives. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Race has no genetic or scientific basis. "