183 Quotes by Craig Venter

A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease.

The fact that I have a risk genetically for Alzheimer's and blindness is not great news. But the reality is that any one of us will have dozens of these risks, and what we have to learn is how to deal with them.

The Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed by the experience. I was one of the fortunate few who came out better off.

There's a constant debate over nature or nurture - they're inseparable.

When you think of all the things that are made from oil or in the chemical industry, if in the future we could find cells to replace most of those processes, the ideal way would be to do it by direct design.

There's a lot of what I call 'bio-babble' and hype out there from a lot of bioenergy companies.

Accuracy in the genetic field will be essential. Errors in testing could be disastrous.

We're moving from reading the genetic code to writing it.

For each gene in your genome, you quite often get a different version of that gene from your father and a different version from your mother. We need to study these relationships across a very large number of people.