73 Quotes by Kary Mullis

We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.

Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there.

Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.

You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.

Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.

It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.

Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.

In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.

I can say exactly what I feel about any issue, and I'm going to do that.