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" The same oil that gets burned as fuel is also the entire basis for the petrochemical industries, so our clothing, our plastics and our pharmaceuticals all come from oil and its derivatives. "
Craig Venter
Same
Come
Oil
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" In the past, geneticists have looked at so-called disease genes, but a lot of people have changes in their genes and don't get these diseases. There have to be other parts of physiology and genetics that compensate. "
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" People think they're making individual decisions for themselves and their family not to get vaccinated. It's not just an individual choice - you're a hazard to society. "
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People
You
" I am not sure our brains and our psychologies are ready for immortality. "
Craig Venter
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" 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. "
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" I have this idea of trying to catalog all the genes on the planet. "
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Trying
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" When most people talk about biofuels, they talk about using oils or grease from plants. "
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Talk
Most
Oils
" San Francisco is one of my favorite cities on the planet. "
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San Francisco
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" Life is a DNA software system. "
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DNA
Life
System
" The gene 'klotho' was named after the Greek Fate purported to spin the thread of life, because it contributes to longevity. "
Craig Venter
Because
Thread
Longevity
" That's the nice thing about the field of science - the test of time sorts out the truth. "
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Field
Nice
Science
" We need 10,000 genomes, not 100, to start to understand the link between genetics, disease and wellness. "
Craig Venter
Wellness
Need
Link
" The day is not far off when we will be able to send a robotically controlled genome-sequencing unit in a probe to other planets to read the DNA sequence of any alien microbe life that may be there. "
Craig Venter
Day
Alien
DNA
" 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. "
Craig Venter
My Own
Waves
Space
" 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. "
Craig Venter
Been
Risk
Longevity
" 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. "
Craig Venter
Unique
Genome
Solution
" 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. "
Craig Venter
Way
Want
Tree
" I spent 10 years trying to find one gene. "
Craig Venter
Years
Gene
Find
" 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. "
Craig Venter
Great
News
Risks
" I don't see any absolute biological limit on human age. "
Craig Venter
See
Limit
Human
" 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. "
Craig Venter
Birth
Nature
Innovation
" I've made money by just trying to do world-class science. That's the goal that we're setting at Celera. If we do world-class science and create new medicine paradigms, the money will more than follow at a corporate level and at a personal level. "
Craig Venter
Trying
Goal
Medicine
" 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. "
Craig Venter
Believe
Early
New
" We all evolved out of the same three or four groups in Africa, as black Africans. "
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Three
Four
Same
" Society and medicine treat us all as members of populations, whereas as individuals we are all unique, and population statistics do not apply. "
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Unique
Treat
Us
" My complaint is that there are more books and news articles than there are primary scientific papers. I am probably the biggest critic of the hypesters, because it's dangerous when fields get overhyped. "
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More
I Am
Than
" Intellectual property is a key aspect for economic development. "
Craig Venter
Property
Development
Intellectual
" You cannot look at a person's genes and say with any accuracy whether they are from one racial group or another. "
Craig Venter
Look
Group
Racial
" 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. "
Craig Venter
Think
Eye
Color
" People want to protect the territory that they have, and they're very threatened by change. That's not true for all of scientists, but you know, fortunately, the scientific community moves forward in a conservative fashion. "
Craig Venter
Change
People
Community
" There's a lot of what I call 'bio-babble' and hype out there from a lot of bioenergy companies. "
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Lot
Call
Companies