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" Your age is your No. 1 risk factor for almost every disease, but it's not a disease itself. "
Craig Venter
Risk
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Disease
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" 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. "
Craig Venter
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Age
" I've gotten some pretty nice awards. I'm having trouble finding places to put them all. "
Craig Venter
Awards
Places
Nice
" 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. "
Craig Venter
Hype
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Right
" Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short. "
Craig Venter
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" Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective. "
Craig Venter
Information
Everyone
Privacy
" I see, in the future, bioengineered almost everything you can imagine that we use. "
Craig Venter
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Imagine
See
" One important part of scientific training is that scientists learn the boundaries, the safety issues, how to properly deal with and dispose of chemicals and reagents. "
Craig Venter
Training
Learn
Deal
" My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body. "
Craig Venter
Found
Body
Genetic
" We need 10,000 genomes, not 100, to start to understand the link between genetics, disease and wellness. "
Craig Venter
Wellness
Need
Link
" Knowing what your parents have gives you hints of things, but your genome is a totally unique combination of and interchange of DNA from your parents. There is no one else like you genetically. "
Craig Venter
Parents
You
Unique
" Our genomes are evolving and changing every single day. "
Craig Venter
Day
Changing
Our
" The mouse genome is an invaluable tool to interpret the human genome. "
Craig Venter
Mouse
Tool
Interpret
" We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations. "
Craig Venter
Know
Genes
Virtually
" 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. "
Craig Venter
Future
You
Think
" The Janus-like nature of innovation - its responsible use and so on - was evident at the very birth of human ingenuity, when humankind first discovered how to make fire on demand. "
Craig Venter
Birth
Nature
Innovation
" I spent 10 years trying to find one gene. "
Craig Venter
Years
Gene
Find
" 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. "
Craig Venter
My Own
Waves
Space
" A doctor can save maybe a few hundred lives in a lifetime. A researcher can save the whole world. "
Craig Venter
Save
Doctor
Lifetime
" Accuracy in the genetic field will be essential. Errors in testing could be disastrous. "
Craig Venter
Field
Accuracy
Testing
" 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. "
Craig Venter
Study
People
Need
" Race has no genetic or scientific basis. "
Craig Venter
Scientific
Basis
Genetic
" I naively thought that we could have a molecular definition for life, come up with a set of genes that would minimally define life. Nature just refuses to be so easily quantified. "
Craig Venter
Just
Life
Genes
" 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. "
Craig Venter
Yourself
Me
Ego
" It appears that the human genome does indeed contain deserts, or large, gene-poor regions. "
Craig Venter
Large
Human
Genome
" I was a horrible student. I really hated school. "
Craig Venter
Horrible
Really
Hated
" In a biological system, the software builds its own hardware, but design is critical, and if you start with digital information, it has to be really accurate. "
Craig Venter
Own
Start
Design
" There's a constant debate over nature or nurture - they're inseparable. "
Craig Venter
Debate
Constant
Nurture
" People think that Celera's trying to patent the whole human genome because it's been used as - I guess people in Washington learn how to do political attacks, and so it gets used as a political weapon, not as a factual one. "
Craig Venter
Learn
Trying
Think
" 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. "
Craig Venter
California
Biology
Now
" Science should be the most fun job on the planet. You get to ask questions about the world around you and go out and seek the answers. Not to have fun doing that is crazy. "
Craig Venter
Have Fun
Science
Crazy