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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. "

Craig Venter

Law

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

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

Craig Venter

Oil

Fashion

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

" The mouse genome is an invaluable tool to interpret the human genome. "

" The leading edge of the best science in the world is being driven by private money, and investment money because of the scarcity of government money to do this. It's not only by far the best and most advanced science, we're driving the equation at Human Longevity that everyone else is beginning to follow as well. "

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

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

" Now that we can read and write the genetic code, put it in digital form and translate it back into synthesized life, it will be possible to speed up biological evolution to the pace of social evolution. "

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

" We can do genetics. We can do experiments on fruit flies. We can do experiments on yeast. It's not so easy to do experiments on humans. So, in fact, it helps us, to interpret our own genetic code, to have the genetic code of the other species. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Each part of our genome is unique. We would not be alive if there was not a single mathematical solution for our chromosomes. We would just be scrambled goo. "

" The gene 'klotho' was named after the Greek Fate purported to spin the thread of life, because it contributes to longevity. "

" Society and medicine treat us all as members of populations, whereas as individuals we are all unique, and population statistics do not apply. "

Craig Venter

Unique

Treat

" My greatest fear is not the abuse of technology but that we will not use it at all. "

" I willed myself through a junior college to a university and, ultimately, a Ph.D. "

" Companies, cities, and potentially even individuals could have a small refinery to make their own fuel. "

" The Anthropocentic Age - the first age in which humankind is the dominant species on the planet - cuts both ways: it is up to us to destroy or save the planet. We certainly have the ability. "

" Sailing is a big outlet for me. "

Craig Venter

Big

Sailing

" 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. "

" The future of society is 100% dependent on scientific advances. "

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

" I turned 65 last year, and each year I get more and more interested in human health. For most people it happens around age 50, but I've always been a slow learner. It's critical in terms of the cost of health care. "

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

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

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