Craig Venter Quotes

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.
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.
Intellectual property is a key aspect for economic development.
Is my science of a level consistent with other people who have gotten the Nobel? Yes.
It appears that the human genome does indeed contain deserts, or large, gene-poor regions.
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?
It turns out synthesizing DNA is very difficult. There are tens of thousands of machines around the world that make small pieces of DNA - 30 to 50 letters in length - and it's a degenerate process, so the longer you make the piece, the more errors there are.
It's quite comforting to me as an individualist that we're not very close to being clones of one other.
It's very expensive to treat chronic diseases.
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.
Life is a DNA software system.
Life was so cheap in Vietnam. That is where my sense of urgency comes from.
Mathematicians have been hiding and writing messages in the genetic code for a long time, but it's clear they were mathematicians and not biologists because, if you write long messages with the code that the mathematicians developed, it would more than likely lead to new proteins being synthesized with unknown functions.
Mitochondrial DNA is in higher concentration, lasts longer, and can be extracted from bones.
Most people don't realize it, because they're invisible, but microbes make up about a half of the Earth's biomass, whereas all animals only make up about one one-thousandth of all the biomass.
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.
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.
My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body.
My greatest fear is not the abuse of technology but that we will not use it at all.
Nobel prizes are very special prizes, and it would be great to get one.
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