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It's all too easy to dismiss the future. People confuse what's impossible today with what's impossible tomorrow.

~George M. Church

Topics: Confuse Dismiss Easy Future Impossible People Today Tomorrow Too

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I always loved computers - it's something inside you.

~George M. Church

Topics: Always Computers Inside Loved Something You

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If you get very fine, accurate, and inexpensive control over your genome, you can fundamentally change the kind of organism you are. You are extending human capacity.

~George M. Church

Topics: Accurate Capacity Change Control Extending Fine Fundamentally Genome Get Human Inexpensive Kind Organism Over Very You Your

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I have a rule against saying something is impossible unless it violates laws of physics.

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Every cell in our body, whether it's a bacterial cell or a human cell, has a genome. You can extract that genome - it's kind of like a linear tape - and you can read it by a variety of methods. Similarly, like a string of letters that you can read, you can also change it. You can write, you can edit it, and then you can put it back in the cell.

~George M. Church

Topics: Also Back Body Cell Change Edit Every Extract Genome Human Kind Letters Like Linear Methods Our Put Read Similarly String Tape Then Variety Whether Write You

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The World Wide Web went from zero to millions of web pages in a few years. Many revolutions look irrelevant just before they change everything swiftly.

~George M. Church

Topics: Before Change Everything Few Irrelevant Just Look Many Millions Pages Revolutions Swiftly Web Wide World World Wide Web Years Zero

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We might want to figure out what are the positive effects of autism - mild cases.

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Most people are excited about themselves. Personal genome will deliver for inexpensively something about science to which you can relate. Just like computers are becoming something to which you can relate. It should be even easier to relate to your own biology, and I hope that will be one of the ways we get broader literacy in science.

~George M. Church

Topics: About Becoming Biology Broader Computers Deliver Easier Even Excited Genome Get Hope Just Like Literacy Most Own People Personal Relate Science Should Something Themselves Ways Which Will You Your I Hope That

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I'll drop something for a while, a year or maybe several years, and then pick it up again. I think that's the way successful innovators work. They keep juggling ideas, keeping them in the air, in the back of their mind, to inspire them or enable new recombinations.

~George M. Church

Topics: Again Air Back Drop Enable Ideas Innovators Inspire Juggling Keep Keeping Maybe Mind New Pick Several Something Successful Them Then Think Up Way While Work Year Years I Think

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Very often, as I wander through life, I'll get that old feeling that I've come back from the future, and I'm living in the past. And it's a really horrible feeling.

~George M. Church

Topics: Back Come Feeling Future Get Horrible In The Past Life Living Often Old Past Really Through Very Wander

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: August 28th, 1954

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