Craig Venter Quotes

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Craig Venter

Profession : Scientist

Birth : October 14, 1946

Genomics are about individuals. It's about what's specific to you, not your siblings, not your parents - each of us is totally unique. We will only see that uniqueness by drilling down to the genetic code.

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Our genomes are evolving and changing every single day.

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We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations.

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I think I'm a survivor. I could have suffered at least 100 professional deaths. I could come up with a list of the 100 times I've come closest to death, from having pneumonia as a child to car crashes.

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Synthetic biology can help address key challenges facing the planet and its population. Research in synthetic biology may lead to new things such as programmed cells that self-assemble at the sites of disease to repair damage.

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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.

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The future of society is 100% dependent on scientific advances.

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We can create new food substances.

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You can't have life without the genetic code.

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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.

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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.

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A doctor can save maybe a few hundred lives in a lifetime. A researcher can save the whole world.

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There are enzymes called restriction enzymes that actually digest DNA.

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I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that we have one life on this planet.

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Organisms in the ocean provide over 40 percent of the oxygen we breathe, and they're the major sink for capturing all the carbon dioxide we constantly release into the atmosphere.

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My greatest fear is not the abuse of technology but that we will not use it at all.

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San Francisco is one of my favorite cities on the planet.

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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.

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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.

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As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design.

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