Top 32 J Craig Venter Quotes
#1. The problem with existing biology is you change only one or two genes at a time.
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#2. It is my belief that the basic knowledge that we're providing to the world will have a profound impact on the human condition and the treatments for disease and our view of our place on the biological continuum.
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#3. 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.
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#4. 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.
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#5. I am not sure our brains and our psychologies are ready for immortality.
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#6. The pace of digitizing life has been increasing exponentially.
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#7. We can now diagnose diseases that haven't even manifested in the patient, and may not until the fifth decade of life - if at all.
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#8. I have an unusual type of thinking. I have no visual memory whatsoever. Everything is conceptual to me.
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#9. Show me a highly successful person in any field that has gotten there having a weak ego. You have to believe in yourself, and you have to believe in what you're doing.
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#10. Organisms in the ocean provide over 40 percent of the oxygen we breathe, and they're the major sink for capturing all the carbon dioxide we constantly release into the atmosphere.
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#11. 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.
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#12. Every single cancer is a genetic disease. Not necessarily inherited from your parents, but it's genetic changes which cause cancer. So as we sequence the genomes of tumours and compare those to the sequence of patients, we're getting down to the fundamental basis of each individual person's cancer.
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#13. I suppose if there's a set of genes I have, it's detesting authority.
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#14. I've made money by just trying to do world-class science. That's the goal that we're setting at Celera. If we do world-class science and create new medicine paradigms, the money will more than follow at a corporate level and at a personal level.
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#15. Darwin didn't walk around the Galapagos and come up with the theory of evolution. He was exploring, collecting, making observations. It wasn't until he got back and went through the samples that he noticed the differences among them and put them in context.
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#16. Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made.
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#17. You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.
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#18. I somewhat joke that I know an awful lot because I learn from my mistakes. I just make a lot of mistakes. It's OK to fail in science just as long as you have the successes to go with the failures.
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#19. The gene 'klotho' was named after the Greek Fate purported to spin the thread of life, because it contributes to longevity.
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#21. 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.
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#22. Transposons are just small pieces of DNA that randomly insert in the genetic code. And if they insert in the middle of the gene, they disrupt its function.
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#23. I've always been fascinated with adrenaline; it's saved my life more than once, and it's caused me to need it to save my life more than once. One of the most fascinating responses in human evolution, adrenaline sharpens your brain; it sharpens your responses.
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#24. We're a country of laws and rules, and the Supreme Court has ruled that life forms are patentable entities.
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#25. I've had a very unusual background in science - not the usual route of planning on being a scientist from age 3. I think my story shows that success is more about personal motivation and determination than it is about where you were born or what your economic status was.
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#26. I am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environment.
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#27. 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.
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#28. There have been lots of stories written about all the hype over getting the genome done and the letdown of not discovering lots of cures right after.
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#30. The only 'afterlife' is what other people remember of you.
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#31. Once we all have our genomes, some of these extremely rare diseases are going to be totally predictable.
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#32. Most drugs work on only about a third of the population, they do no damage to another third, and the final third can have negative consequences.
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