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.
From Craig Venter
I have this idea of trying to catalog all the genes on the planet.
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.
I have an unusual type of thinking. I have no visual memory whatsoever. Everything is conceptual to me.
I see, in the future, bioengineered almost everything you can imagine that we use.
I was a horrible student. I really hated school.
As a scientist, I clearly see the potential for harnessing the power of nature.
I naively thought that we could have a molecular definition for life, come up with a set of genes that would minimally define life. Nature just refuses to be so easily quantified.
I thought we'd just sequence the genome once and that would be sufficient for most things in people's lifetimes. Now we're seeing how changeable and adaptable it is, which is why we're surviving and evolving as a species.
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.
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