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" 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. "

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

" I am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environment. "

" We need 10,000 genomes, not 100, to start to understand the link between genetics, disease and wellness. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" Synthetic biology can help address key challenges facing the planet and its population. Research in synthetic biology may lead to new things such as programmed cells that self-assemble at the sites of disease to repair damage. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics. "

" 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. "

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

" We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think I'm a survivor. I could have suffered at least 100 professional deaths. I could come up with a list of the 100 times I've come closest to death, from having pneumonia as a child to car crashes. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Ethanol's not an ideal fuel. "

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