17 Quotes by Paul Berg

Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.

That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.

But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.

The production and consumption of genetically engineered food plants are realities although their dissemination has been limited.

Harland Wood, the department head, was an inspiring scientist and teacher but he was also devoted to his students and colleagues.

Literally hundreds of millions of experiments, many inconceivable in 1975, have been carried out in the last 30 years without incident.

Notably, some nations have enacted legislation that prohibits genetically-modified plants and animals from entering into their food supply.