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

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" I thought we'd just sequence the genome once and that would be sufficient for most things in people's lifetimes. Now we're seeing how changeable and adaptable it is, which is why we're surviving and evolving as a species. "

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

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

" Our genomes are evolving and changing every single day. "

" The only 'afterlife' is what other people remember of you. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" The problem with existing biology is you change only one or two genes at a time. "

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

" 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. "

" Show me a highly successful person in any field that has gotten there having a weak ego. You have to believe in yourself, and you have to believe in what you're doing. "

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

" If you have lung cancer, the most important thing you can know is your genetic code. "

" 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. "

" Genes can't possibly explain all of what makes us what we are. "

" Space X's Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars with modules where earthlings can live. My teleporting technology is the number one way those individuals will get new information, new treatments of diseases that will occur on the planet, and new food sources. "

" 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. "

" It appears that the human genome does indeed contain deserts, or large, gene-poor regions. "

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

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

" A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease. "

" You cannot look at a person's genes and say with any accuracy whether they are from one racial group or another. "

" 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 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. "