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

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" Race has no genetic or scientific basis. "

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

" For each gene in your genome, you quite often get a different version of that gene from your father and a different version from your mother. We need to study these relationships across a very large number of people. "

" There's a lot of what I call 'bio-babble' and hype out there from a lot of bioenergy companies. "

" 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. "

" We're a country of laws and rules, and the Supreme Court has ruled that life forms are patentable entities. "

" 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. "

" We can now diagnose diseases that haven't even manifested in the patient, and may not until the fifth decade of life - if at all. "

" Fred Sanger was one of the most important scientists of the 20th century. "

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" Sometime in the future, I am a hundred percent certain scientists will sit down at a computer terminal, design what they want the organism to do, and build it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Your age is your No. 1 risk factor for almost every disease, but it's not a disease itself. "

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

" 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. "

" Traditional autobiography has generally had a poor press. The novelist Daphne du Maurier condemned all examples of this literary form as self-indulgent. Others have quipped that autobiography reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory. "

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

" People think genes are an absolute cause of traits. But the notion that the genome is the blueprint for humanity is a very bad metaphor. If you think we're hard-wired and deterministic, there should indeed be a lot more genes. "

" When you think of all the things that are made from oil or in the chemical industry, if in the future we could find cells to replace most of those processes, the ideal way would be to do it by direct design. "

" 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 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. "

" Once we all have our genomes, some of these extremely rare diseases are going to be totally predictable. "

" 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 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. "

" It's very expensive to treat chronic diseases. "

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

" Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short. "