183 Quotes by Craig Venter

The photosynthesis we see with plants is not very efficient. Algaes are more efficient.

When you do cross-breeding of plants, you're doing this blind experiment where you're just mixing DNA of different types of cells and just seeing what comes out of it.

You cannot look at a person's genes and say with any accuracy whether they are from one racial group or another.

We all evolved out of the same three or four groups in Africa, as black Africans.

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.

You can imagine: 99 percent of your experiments fail for one reason or another.

When I started my Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego, I was told that it would be difficult to make a new discovery in biology because it was all known. It all seems so absurd now.

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.

Even though people pretend that medical records are privileged information, anyone can already get their hands on them.