Scientist Quotes

I willed myself through a junior college to a university and, ultimately, a Ph.D.
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.
I'm hoping that these next 20 years will show what we did 20 years ago in sequencing the first human genome, was the beginning of the health revolution that will have more positive impact in people's lives than any other health event in history.
I've always been fascinated with adrenaline; it's saved my life more than once, and it's caused me to need it to save my life more than once. One of the most fascinating responses in human evolution, adrenaline sharpens your brain; it sharpens your responses.
I've gotten some pretty nice awards. I'm having trouble finding places to put them all.
I've had a very unusual background in science - not the usual route of planning on being a scientist from age 3. I think my story shows that success is more about personal motivation and determination than it is about where you were born or what your economic status was.
I've made money by just trying to do world-class science. That's the goal that we're setting at Celera. If we do world-class science and create new medicine paradigms, the money will more than follow at a corporate level and at a personal level.
If I could change the science system, my prescription for changing the whole thing would be organising it around big goals and building teams to do it.
If I had a weak ego, and doubts about this, the first genome would not yet have been completed with US and UK government funding.
If there is a race, it is one to bring the benefits of genomes to human therapeutics. We all want to get there. We all want people to have much more meaningful and productive lives as they age.
If you have lung cancer, the most important thing you can know is your genetic code.
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.
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