73 Quotes by Kary Mullis

Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes...

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.

I’m not politically correct.

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.

There are a lot of people for whom psychedelics have been really beneficial. But I wouldn’t recommend it to everyone. Some are just not ready but society would benefit from letting people who are ready for psychedelics have legal acces to them.

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

Global warmers predict that global warming is coming, and our emissions are to blame. They do that to keep us worried about our role in the whole thing. If we aren’t worried and guilty, we might not pay their salaries. It’s that simple.

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

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.