183 Quotes by Craig Venter

You'd need a very specialized electron microscope to get down to the level to actually see a single strand of DNA.

The only 'afterlife' is what other people remember of you.

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.

Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code.

Traditional autobiography has generally had a poor press. The novelist Daphne du Maurier condemned all examples of this literary form as self-indulgent. Others have quipped that autobiography reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

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.

Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.

Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made.