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

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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. "

" There are enzymes called restriction enzymes that actually digest DNA. "

" 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. "

" Part of the problem with the discovery of the so-called breast-cancer genes was that physicians wrongly told women that had the genetic changes associated with the genes that they had a 99% chance of getting breast cancer. Turns out all women that have these genetic changes don't get breast cancer. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The chemistry from compounds in the environment is orders of magnitude more complex than our best chemists can produce. "

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

" Sailing is a big outlet for me. It's one of the key things I've been able to do by commingling science with sailing and my love of the sea. Also, I have several motorcycles, and I like to go on motorcycle trips. "

" We can create new food substances. "

" When you do cross-breeding of plants, you're doing this blind experiment where you're just mixing DNA of different types of cells and just seeing what comes out of it. "

" 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. "

" Accuracy in the genetic field will be essential. Errors in testing could be disastrous. "

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

" 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. "

" The trouble is the field of science, medicine, universities, biotech companies - you name it - have been so splintered, layers, sub-divided, hacked that people can spend their entire career studying one tiny little cog of life. "

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

" I have an unusual type of thinking. I have no visual memory whatsoever. Everything is conceptual to me. "

" Every single cancer is a genetic disease. Not necessarily inherited from your parents, but it's genetic changes which cause cancer. So as we sequence the genomes of tumours and compare those to the sequence of patients, we're getting down to the fundamental basis of each individual person's cancer. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" My early years were hardly a model of focus, discipline, and direction. No one who met me as a teenager could have imagined my going into research and making important discoveries. No one could have predicted the arc of my career. "

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

" 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. "

" People are comprised of sets of DNA from each parent. If you looked at just the DNA from your father, it wouldn't tell you who you really are. "

" There have been lots of stories written about all the hype over getting the genome done and the letdown of not discovering lots of cures right after. "

" You'd need a very specialized electron microscope to get down to the level to actually see a single strand of DNA. "