183 Quotes by Craig Venter

I have this idea of trying to catalog all the genes on the planet.

Fred Sanger was one of the most important scientists of the 20th century.

If anything, we've learned that we don't think this data's going to be as deterministic as was previously thought, ... There is even more need for this legislation until science catches up with our collective ignorance.

I hope I'll be remembered for my scientific contribution to understanding life and human life.

The pace of digitizing life has been increasing exponentially.

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.

How we understand our own selves and how we work with our DNA software has implications that will affect everything from vaccine development to new approaches to antibiotics, new sources of food, new sources of chemicals, even potentially new sources of energy.

In a biological system, the software builds its own hardware, but design is critical, and if you start with digital information, it has to be really accurate.

There are still so many questions to answer about the workings of the human body and, most mysterious of all, it is influenced by our state of mind.