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Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment.

~Craig Venter

Topics: Design Earth Environment Fight Forcing Genetic Humans Lack Something Sustainability Use

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The Anthropocentic Age - the first age in which humankind is the dominant species on the planet - cuts both ways: it is up to us to destroy or save the planet. We certainly have the ability.

~Craig Venter

Topics: Ability Age Both Both Ways Certainly Cuts Destroy Dominant First Humankind Planet Save Species Up Us Ways Which

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Space X's Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars with modules where earthlings can live. My teleporting technology is the number one way those individuals will get new information, new treatments of diseases that will occur on the planet, and new food sources.

~Craig Venter

Topics: Diseases Elon Musk Food Get Individuals Information Live Mars New Number Occur One Way Planet Sources Space Technology Those Treatments Wants Way Where Will

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People want to protect the territory that they have, and they're very threatened by change. That's not true for all of scientists, but you know, fortunately, the scientific community moves forward in a conservative fashion.

~Craig Venter

Topics: Change Community Conservative Fashion Fortunately Forward Know Moves People Protect Scientific Scientists Territory Threatened True Very Want You

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People think that Celera's trying to patent the whole human genome because it's been used as - I guess people in Washington learn how to do political attacks, and so it gets used as a political weapon, not as a factual one.

~Craig Venter

Topics: Attacks Because Been Factual Genome Gets Guess How Human Learn Patent People Political Think Trying Used Washington Weapon Whole

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I wrote an editorial piece in 'Science' about the nightly data release and how I thought it was bad for science as a field, I think a few years before Celera was formed.

~Craig Venter

Topics: About Bad Before Data Editorial Few Field Formed How Nightly Piece Release Science Think Thought Wrote Years I Think

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'Bloomberg's, you know, for people who don't use the service, provides through the Internet - through specialized computers - information about the financial world. It's a very large data base. I think they have on the order of a billion dollars or more a year in revenue.

~Craig Venter

Topics: About Base Billion Billion Dollars Computers Data Dollars Financial Information Internet Know Large More Order People Provides Revenue Service Specialized Think Through Use Very Who World Year You I Think

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The same oil that gets burned as fuel is also the entire basis for the petrochemical industries, so our clothing, our plastics and our pharmaceuticals all come from oil and its derivatives.

~Craig Venter

Topics: Also Basis Burned Clothing Come Derivatives Entire Fuel Gets Industries Oil Our Same

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Right now, oil is being isolated around the globe, and there is a major effort in shipping, trucking and otherwise transporting that oil around to a very finite number of refineries. Biology allows us to make these same fuels in a much more distributed fashion.

~Craig Venter

Topics: Around Being Biology Distributed Effort Fashion Finite Fuels Globe Isolated Major Make More Much Now Number Oil Otherwise Right Same Shipping Us Very

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You can't have life without the genetic code.

~Craig Venter

Topics: Code Genetic Life Without You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: October 14th, 1946

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