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Craig Venter

Profession : Scientist

Birth : October 14, 1946

Traditional autobiography has generally had a poor press. The novelist Daphne du Maurier condemned all examples of this literary form as self-indulgent. Others have quipped that autobiography reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

Craig Venter

Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature.

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Sailing is a big outlet for me.

Craig Venter

Sailing is a big outlet for me. It's one of the key things I've been able to do by commingling science with sailing and my love of the sea. Also, I have several motorcycles, and I like to go on motorcycle trips.

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People think genes are an absolute cause of traits. But the notion that the genome is the blueprint for humanity is a very bad metaphor. If you think we're hard-wired and deterministic, there should indeed be a lot more genes.

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There is a long history of how DNA sequencing can bring certainty to people's lives.

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The leading edge of the best science in the world is being driven by private money, and investment money because of the scarcity of government money to do this. It's not only by far the best and most advanced science, we're driving the equation at Human Longevity that everyone else is beginning to follow as well.

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The pace of digitizing life has been increasing exponentially.

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When you think of all the things that are made from oil or in the chemical industry, if in the future we could find cells to replace most of those processes, the ideal way would be to do it by direct design.

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Perfect pitch is genetic. It's 100% genetic.

Craig Venter

Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short.

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Accuracy in the genetic field will be essential. Errors in testing could be disastrous.

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When most people talk about biofuels, they talk about using oils or grease from plants.

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There have been lots of stories written about all the hype over getting the genome done and the letdown of not discovering lots of cures right after.

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Ethanol's not an ideal fuel.

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Once we all have our genomes, some of these extremely rare diseases are going to be totally predictable.

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Early on, when you're working in a new area of science, you have to think about all the pitfalls and things that could lead you to believe that you had done something when you hadn't, and, even worse, leading others to believe it.

Craig Venter

Genes can't possibly explain all of what makes us what we are.

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It appears that the human genome does indeed contain deserts, or large, gene-poor regions.

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One of the challenges with a government health system, like in the UK, with all of this data, is that you have a government making decisions on which treatments they'll pay for and which ones they won't. That's a dangerous, dangerous, place to get into society.

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