183 Quotes by Craig Venter

'Bloomberg's, you know, for people who don't use the service, provides through the Internet - through specialized computers - information about the financial world. It's a very large data base. I think they have on the order of a billion dollars or more a year in revenue.

As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design.

Energy is probably the most pressing demand on our planet.

Early on, when you're working in a new area of science, you have to think about all the pitfalls and things that could lead you to believe that you had done something when you hadn't, and, even worse, leading others to believe it.

I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that we have one life on this planet. We have one chance to live it and to contribute to the future of society and the future of life. The only “afterlife” is what other people remember of you.

It is my belief that the basic knowledge that we’re providing to the world will have a profound impact on the human condition and the treatments for disease and our view of our place on the biological continuum.

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

You can’t just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.

Any virus that’s been sequenced today – that genome can be made.