183 Quotes by Craig Venter

I see, in the future, bioengineered almost everything you can imagine that we use.

Is my science of a level consistent with other people who have gotten the Nobel? Yes.

I am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environment.

I spent 10 years trying to find one gene.

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.

Intellectual property is a key aspect for economic development.

We can do genetics. We can do experiments on fruit flies. We can do experiments on yeast. It's not so easy to do experiments on humans. So, in fact, it helps us, to interpret our own genetic code, to have the genetic code of the other species.

The rich agricultural nations are the ones that can adapt to the new biotechnologies.

It appears that the human genome does indeed contain deserts, or large, gene-poor regions.