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

~George M. Church

Topics: Age Biotechnology Cooler Disease Eliminate Facebook Gracefully Much Poverty Rewards Solve Sounds Than Tremendous

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If society becomes comfortable with cloning and sees value in true human diversity, then the whole Neanderthal creature itself could be cloned by a surrogate mother chimp - or by an extremely adventurous female human.

~George M. Church

Topics: Adventurous Becomes Cloning Comfortable Could Creature Diversity Extremely Female Human Itself Mother Sees Society Surrogate Then True Value Whole

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The one thing that is bad for society is low diversity. If you become a monoculture, you are at great risk of perishing. Therefore, the recreation of Neanderthals would be mainly a question of societal risk avoidance.

~George M. Church

Topics: Avoidance Bad Become Diversity Great Low Mainly One Thing Question Recreation Risk Societal Society The One Thing Therefore Thing Would You

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I don't actually believe there's any such thing as privacy.

~George M. Church

Topics: Actually Any Believe Privacy Thing

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What dinosaur traits are missing from an ostrich? The ostrich has a toothless beak, but there are mutations that cause teeth and claws to come back to their mouth and limbs. You need to replace the feathers with scales, but there are no feathers on their legs and feet, so you just need to make its whole body like its legs are.

~George M. Church

Topics: Back Body Cause Claws Come Dinosaur Feathers Feet Just Legs Like Limbs Make Missing Mouth Mutations Need Ostrich Replace Scales Teeth Traits Whole You

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Your genetics is not your destiny.

~George M. Church

Topics: Destiny Genetics Your

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

~George M. Church

Topics: Get Hoard Ideas Inside Ivory Just Out Them Tower World You Your

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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

Topics: About Almost Almost All Anything Biological Computer Computers Day Digital Digital World Fraction Geeks Happen Huge Knew Like Molecules Nobody Our See Too Us Where World

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Making new petroleum should be as simple and straightforward as brewing beer.

~George M. Church

Topics: Beer Making New Petroleum Should Simple Straightforward

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Reversal of ageing is high on my list of things to do, and not just because I'm getting old.

~George M. Church

Topics: Ageing Because Getting Getting Old High Just Just Because List Old Things

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: August 28th, 1954

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