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The trouble is the field of science, medicine, universities, biotech companies - you name it - have been so splintered, layers, sub-divided, hacked that people can spend their entire career studying one tiny little cog of life.

~Craig Venter

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If I could change the science system, my prescription for changing the whole thing would be organising it around big goals and building teams to do it.

~Craig Venter

Topics: Around Big Building Change Changing Could Goals If I Could Prescription Science System Teams Thing Whole Would

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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.

~Craig Venter

Topics: Cells Chemical Could Design Direct Find Future Ideal Industry Made Most Oil Processes Replace Things Think Those Way Would You

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We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before.

~Craig Venter

Topics: Ability Before Code Genetic Gives Going Hypothetical Never Our Reading Things Us Write

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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.

~Craig Venter

Topics: Car Child Closest Come Could Crashes Death Deaths Having Least List Professional Suffered Survivor Think Times Up I Think Pneumonia

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I suppose if there's a set of genes I have, it's detesting authority.

~Craig Venter

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The Janus-like nature of innovation - its responsible use and so on - was evident at the very birth of human ingenuity, when humankind first discovered how to make fire on demand.

~Craig Venter

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Since my own genome was sequenced, my software has been broadcast into space in the form of electromagnetic waves, carrying my genetic information far beyond Earth. Whether there is any creature out there capable of making sense of the instructions in my genome, well, that's another question.

~Craig Venter

Topics: Another Any Been Beyond Broadcast Capable Carrying Creature Earth Electromagnetic Far Form Genetic Genome Information Instructions Making My Own Out Own Question Sense Since Software Space Waves Well Whether

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I turned 65 last year, and each year I get more and more interested in human health. For most people it happens around age 50, but I've always been a slow learner. It's critical in terms of the cost of health care.

~Craig Venter

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One of the things about genetics that has become clearer as we've done genomes - as we've worked our way through the evolutionary tree, including humans - is that we're probably much more genetic animals than we want to confess we are.

~Craig Venter

Topics: About Animals Become Clearer Confess Done Evolutionary Genetic Genetics Humans Including More Much One Of The Things Our Than Things Through Tree Want Way Worked

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: October 14th, 1946

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