183 Quotes by Craig Venter

If I could change the science system, my prescription for changing the whole thing would be organising it around big goals and building teams to do it.

A doctor can save maybe a few hundred lives in a lifetime. A researcher can save the whole world.

Since my own genome was sequenced, my software has been broadcast into space in the form of electromagnetic waves, carrying my genetic information far beyond Earth. Whether there is any creature out there capable of making sense of the instructions in my genome, well, that's another question.

the most important scientific effort that humankind has ever mounted.

Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short.

Space X's Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars with modules where earthlings can live. My teleporting technology is the number one way those individuals will get new information, new treatments of diseases that will occur on the planet, and new food sources.

I am confident that life once thrived on Mars and may well still exist there today.

Once we all have our genomes, some of these extremely rare diseases are going to be totally predictable.

I have an unusual type of thinking. I have no visual memory whatsoever. Everything is conceptual to me.