We went from a world where almost nobody knew anything about computers to a world where almost all of us are computer geeks for a huge fraction of our day. And I'd like to see that happen with the digital world of biological molecules, too.

George M. Church

I always loved computers - it's something inside you.

George M. Church

Most people are excited about themselves. Personal genome will deliver for inexpensively something about science to which you can relate. Just like computers are becoming something to which you can relate. It should be even easier to relate to your own biology, and I hope that will be one of the ways we get broader literacy in science.

George M. Church

Very often, as I wander through life, I'll get that old feeling that I've come back from the future, and I'm living in the past. And it's a really horrible feeling.

George M. Church

The goal of getting your genome done is not to tell you what you will die from, but it's how to learn how to take action to prevent disease.

George M. Church

It's all too easy to dismiss the future. People confuse what's impossible today with what's impossible tomorrow.

George M. Church

Letting the tundra melt is the equivalent to burning all of the forests in all of the world and their roots two and a half times over.

George M. Church

If you get a personal genome, you should be able to get personal cell lines, stem cell derived from your adult tissues, that allow you to bring together synthetic biology and the sequencing so that you can repair parts of your body as you age or repair things that were inherited disorders.

George M. Church

At some point, someone will come up with an airtight argument as to why they should have a cloned child. At that point, cloning will be acceptable.

George M. Church

The rewards for biotechnology are tremendous - to solve disease, eliminate poverty, age gracefully. It sounds so much cooler than Facebook.

George M. Church

Preventing ongoing extinction of elephants, rhinoceroses, and other threatened species is critically important. By all means, we must set priorities for allocating finite conservation resources.

George M. Church

I'll drop something for a while, a year or maybe several years, and then pick it up again. I think that's the way successful innovators work. They keep juggling ideas, keeping them in the air, in the back of their mind, to inspire them or enable new recombinations.

George M. Church

Every cell in our body, whether it's a bacterial cell or a human cell, has a genome. You can extract that genome - it's kind of like a linear tape - and you can read it by a variety of methods. Similarly, like a string of letters that you can read, you can also change it. You can write, you can edit it, and then you can put it back in the cell.

George M. Church

You can't just hoard your ideas inside the ivory tower. You have to get them out into the world.

George M. Church

The World Wide Web went from zero to millions of web pages in a few years. Many revolutions look irrelevant just before they change everything swiftly.

George M. Church

I like talking and walking. It's more productive than doing just one.

George M. Church

People think it's great to be ahead of your time, but it can actually be quite painful.

George M. Church

I'm pathologically calm.

George M. Church

I like to keep the median age in my lab low because they will indulge me in my dreams. They don't yet think things are impossible.

George M. Church

There's this very interesting and complicated connection between our environment and our genes and the traits that come out of the environment plus genes. And there's huge potential. I mean we see amazing abilities. Marie Curie, Albert Einstein. All sorts of arts, and literature and so forth. These are not typical traits of everybody on earth.

George M. Church

George M. Church Quotes

We went from a world where almost nobody knew anything about computers to a world where almost all of us are computer geeks for a huge fraction of our day. And I'd like to see that happen with the digital world of biological molecules, too.

I always loved computers - it's something inside you.

Very often, as I wander through life, I'll get that old feeling that I've come back from the future, and I'm living in the past. And it's a really horrible feeling.

The goal of getting your genome done is not to tell you what you will die from, but it's how to learn how to take action to prevent disease.

It's all too easy to dismiss the future. People confuse what's impossible today with what's impossible tomorrow.

Letting the tundra melt is the equivalent to burning all of the forests in all of the world and their roots two and a half times over.

If you get a personal genome, you should be able to get personal cell lines, stem cell derived from your adult tissues, that allow you to bring together synthetic biology and the sequencing so that you can repair parts of your body as you age or repair things that were inherited disorders.

At some point, someone will come up with an airtight argument as to why they should have a cloned child. At that point, cloning will be acceptable.

The rewards for biotechnology are tremendous - to solve disease, eliminate poverty, age gracefully. It sounds so much cooler than Facebook.

Preventing ongoing extinction of elephants, rhinoceroses, and other threatened species is critically important. By all means, we must set priorities for allocating finite conservation resources.

I'll drop something for a while, a year or maybe several years, and then pick it up again. I think that's the way successful innovators work. They keep juggling ideas, keeping them in the air, in the back of their mind, to inspire them or enable new recombinations.

You can't just hoard your ideas inside the ivory tower. You have to get them out into the world.

The World Wide Web went from zero to millions of web pages in a few years. Many revolutions look irrelevant just before they change everything swiftly.

I like talking and walking. It's more productive than doing just one.

People think it's great to be ahead of your time, but it can actually be quite painful.

I'm pathologically calm.

I like to keep the median age in my lab low because they will indulge me in my dreams. They don't yet think things are impossible.