73 Quotes by Kary Mullis

Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself, law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.

People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so.

You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.

My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.

I like writing about biology, not doing it.

If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.