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" You can imagine: 99 percent of your experiments fail for one reason or another. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Organisms in the ocean provide over 40 percent of the oxygen we breathe, and they're the major sink for capturing all the carbon dioxide we constantly release into the atmosphere. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's quite comforting to me as an individualist that we're not very close to being clones of one other. "

" Darwin didn't walk around the Galapagos and come up with the theory of evolution. He was exploring, collecting, making observations. It wasn't until he got back and went through the samples that he noticed the differences among them and put them in context. "

" 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? "

" There is a long history of how DNA sequencing can bring certainty to people's lives. "

" I wrote an editorial piece in 'Science' about the nightly data release and how I thought it was bad for science as a field, I think a few years before Celera was formed. "

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

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

" As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design. "

" 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. "

" Genomics are about individuals. It's about what's specific to you, not your siblings, not your parents - each of us is totally unique. We will only see that uniqueness by drilling down to the genetic code. "

" My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body. "

" I see, in the future, bioengineered almost everything you can imagine that we use. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature. "

" 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. "

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

" The Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed by the experience. I was one of the fortunate few who came out better off. "

" The interpretation of medicine today is 'do your clinical values fall within a normal range?' Everything in the globe right now is in the law of averages, which mean absolutely nothing to individuals. "

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

" I am not sure our brains and our psychologies are ready for immortality. "

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

" 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. "

" The future of society is 100% dependent on scientific advances. "