Kary Mullis Quotes

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Kary Mullis

Profession : Scientist

Birth : December 28, 1944

Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.

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My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North Carolina in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. My dad's family had a general store, which I never saw. My grandparents on his side had already died before I started noticing things.

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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.

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If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.

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We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.

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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

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Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.

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Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

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I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.

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PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.

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Science grows like a weed every year.

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Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

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Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

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Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.

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Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.

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People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so.

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Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there.

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I can say exactly what I feel about any issue, and I'm going to do that.

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I'm not politically correct.

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I'm really optimistic in the mornings.

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