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Pat answers to complex problems are the hallmark of intellectual mediocrity
I can't go around believing in a God that believes suffering is good for me.
Making new petroleum should be as simple and straightforward as brewing beer.
You can imagine: 99 percent of your experiments fail for one reason or another.
As a scientist, I clearly see the potential for harnessing the power of nature.
The problem with existing biology is you change only one or two genes at a time.
Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.
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.
We might want to figure out what are the positive effects of autism - mild cases.
I see, in the future, bioengineered almost everything you can imagine that we use.
My greatest fear is not the abuse of technology but that we will not use it at all.
I am confident that life once thrived on Mars and may well still exist there today.
If you have lung cancer, the most important thing you can know is your genetic code.
There is a long history of how DNA sequencing can bring certainty to people's lives.
Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness.
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.
The recreation of Neanderthals would be mainly a question of societal risk avoidance.
The living world is not a single array... connected by unbroken series of intergrades.
Accuracy in the genetic field will be essential. Errors in testing could be disastrous.
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.
When most people talk about biofuels, they talk about using oils or grease from plants.
Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.
That's the nice thing about the field of science - the test of time sorts out the truth.
I have a rule against saying something is impossible unless it violates laws of physics.
It appears that the human genome does indeed contain deserts, or large, gene-poor regions.
Your age is your No. 1 risk factor for almost every disease, but it's not a disease itself.
Mitochondrial DNA is in higher concentration, lasts longer, and can be extracted from bones.
We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations.
A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease.
Reversal of ageing is high on my list of things to do, and not just because I'm getting old.
Trees are essentially growing chairs. There are lots of primates that sit and sleep in them.
I hope I'll be remembered for my scientific contribution to understanding life and human life.
There's a lot of what I call 'bio-babble' and hype out there from a lot of bioenergy companies.
You can't just hoard your ideas inside the ivory tower. You have to get them out into the world.
A doctor can save maybe a few hundred lives in a lifetime. A researcher can save the whole world.
Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.
Nature is that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer.
No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.
Companies, cities, and potentially even individuals could have a small refinery to make their own fuel.
It's quite comforting to me as an individualist that we're not very close to being clones of one other.
I have an unusual type of thinking. I have no visual memory whatsoever. Everything is conceptual to me.
Terrorism is not a public health threat, relative to cancer and heart disease and malaria and so forth.
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.
Once we all have our genomes, some of these extremely rare diseases are going to be totally predictable.
Carole Lartigue led the effort to actually transplant a bacterial chromosome from one bacteria to another.