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Ethanol's not an ideal fuel.
Life is a DNA software system.
Sailing is a big outlet for me.
We can create new food substances.
We have learned nothing from the genome.
Race has no genetic or scientific basis.
I spent 10 years trying to find one gene.
We can create new ways to create clean water.
You can't have life without the genetic code.
It's very expensive to treat chronic diseases.
I was a horrible student. I really hated school.
The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.
I don't see any absolute biological limit on human age.
Our genomes are evolving and changing every single day.
San Francisco is one of my favorite cities on the planet.
We're moving from reading the genetic code to writing it.
My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body.
The only 'afterlife' is what other people remember of you.
Energy is probably the most pressing demand on our planet.
Genes can't possibly explain all of what makes us what we are.
The pace of digitizing life has been increasing exponentially.
Intellectual property is a key aspect for economic development.
The future of society is 100% dependent on scientific advances.
Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made.
I have this idea of trying to catalog all the genes on the planet.
Patents are basically rights to try and develop a commercial product.
I suppose if there's a set of genes I have, it's detesting authority.
The mouse genome is an invaluable tool to interpret the human genome.
There are enzymes called restriction enzymes that actually digest DNA.
I have the modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry.
There's a constant debate over nature or nurture - they're inseparable.
Nobel prizes are very special prizes, and it would be great to get one.
I am not sure our brains and our psychologies are ready for immortality.
Fred Sanger was one of the most important scientists of the 20th century.
Life was so cheap in Vietnam. That is where my sense of urgency comes from.
As a scientist, I clearly see the potential for harnessing the power of nature.
You can imagine: 99 percent of your experiments fail for one reason or another.
The problem with existing biology is you change only one or two genes at a time.
We all evolved out of the same three or four groups in Africa, as black Africans.
I willed myself through a junior college to a university and, ultimately, a Ph.D.
I see, in the future, bioengineered almost everything you can imagine that we use.
I am confident that life once thrived on Mars and may well still exist there today.
My greatest fear is not the abuse of technology but that we will not use it at all.
There is a long history of how DNA sequencing can bring certainty to people's lives.
If you have lung cancer, the most important thing you can know is your genetic code.
The rich agricultural nations are the ones that can adapt to the new biotechnologies.
Is my science of a level consistent with other people who have gotten the Nobel? Yes.
I've gotten some pretty nice awards. I'm having trouble finding places to put them all.
Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code.
The photosynthesis we see with plants is not very efficient. Algaes are more efficient.