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One of the fundamental discoveries I made about myself - early enough to make use of it - was that I am driven to seize life and to understand it. The motor that pushes me is propelled by more than scientific curiosity.

~Craig Venter

Topics: About Am Curiosity Discoveries Driven Early Enough Fundamental Life Made Make Me More Motor Myself Pushes Scientific Seize Than Understand Use I Am

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I have this idea of trying to catalog all the genes on the planet.

~Craig Venter

Topics: Catalog Genes Idea Planet Trying

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I have an unusual type of thinking. I have no visual memory whatsoever. Everything is conceptual to me.

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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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Topics: Able Also Been Big Go Key Like Love Me Motorcycle Motorcycles Outlet Sailing Science Sea Several Things Trips

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People equate patents with secrecy, that secrecy is what patents were designed to overcome. That's why the formula for Coca-Cola was never patented. They kept it as a trade secret, and they've outlasted patent laws by 80 years or more.

~Craig Venter

Topics: Coca-Cola Designed Equate Formula Kept Laws More Never Overcome Patent Patents People Secrecy Secret Trade Were Why Years

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There are still so many questions to answer about the workings of the human body and, most mysterious of all, it is influenced by our state of mind.

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Topics: About Answer Body Human Human Body Influenced Many Mind Most Mysterious Our Questions State Still Workings

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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.

~Craig Venter

Topics: Changes Compensate Disease Diseases Genes Geneticist Genetics Get In The Past Looked Lot Other Parts Past People Physiology So-Called

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It's quite comforting to me as an individualist that we're not very close to being clones of one other.

~Craig Venter

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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.

~Craig Venter

Topics: Challenges Dangerous Dangerous Place Data Decisions Get Government Health Like Making Making Decisions Pay Place Society System Treatments Uk Which You

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That's the nice thing about the field of science - the test of time sorts out the truth.

~Craig Venter

Topics: About Field Nice Nice Thing Out Science Sort Test Thing Time Truth

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: October 14th, 1946

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