American - Scientist | October 14, 1946 -
People are comprised of sets of DNA from each parent. If you looked at just the DNA from your father, it wouldn't tell you who you really are.
Craig Venter
FatherPeopleParentYouDNATell
Even with seemingly simple things like eye color, you can't tell from my genetic code whether I have blue eyes or not. So it's naive to think that complex human behaviors, like risk-seeking, are driven by changes in one or two genes.
EyesSimpleBlueEyeColorThink
Preventative medicine has to be the direction we go in. For example, if colon cancer is detected early - because a person knew he had a genetic risk and was having frequent exams - the surgery is relatively inexpensive and average survival is far greater than 10 years.
MedicineDirectionSurvivalEarlyGo
People think they're making individual decisions for themselves and their family not to get vaccinated. It's not just an individual choice - you're a hazard to society.
FamilyPeopleSocietyThinkYouGet
If there is a race, it is one to bring the benefits of genomes to human therapeutics. We all want to get there. We all want people to have much more meaningful and productive lives as they age.
AgePeopleWantRaceMoreHuman
It takes 10 kilograms of grain to produce one kilogram of beef, 15 liters of water to get one kilogram of beef, and those cows produce a lot of methane. Why not get rid of the cows?
WaterWhyWhy NotGetGrainCows
The problem with existing biology is you change only one or two genes at a time.
ChangeTimeProblemYouBiologyTwo
Everybody is looking for a naturally occurring algae that is going to be a miracle cell to save the world, and after a century of looking, people still haven't found it.
PeopleWorldLookingMiracleGoing
There's a lot of what I call 'bio-babble' and hype out there from a lot of bioenergy companies.
OutHypeCallLotCompanies
Energy is probably the most pressing demand on our planet.
EnergyPlanetDemandMostOur
The rich agricultural nations are the ones that can adapt to the new biotechnologies.
RichNewAdaptNationsAgricultural
There's not going to be any one replacement for oil: we need to have hundreds of solutions to this global issue.
OilNeedSolutionsGoingGlobalAny
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Craig Venter quotes