American - Scientist | December 28, 1944 -
The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.
Kary Mullis
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They can't pooh-pooh me now, because of who I am.
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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.
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I like writing about biology, not doing it.
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.
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I'm not driven by being understood.
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Natural DNA is a tractless coil, like an unwound and tangled audiotape on the floor of the car in the dark.
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My mother often mailed me articles from 'Reader's Digest' about advances in DNA chemistry. No matter how I tried to explain it to her, she never grasped the concept that I could have been writing those articles, that something I had invented made most of those DNA discoveries possible.
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My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North Carolina in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. My dad's family had a general store, which I never saw. My grandparents on his side had already died before I started noticing things.
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Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception of a few modern conveniences, had not changed a lot over the years.
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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.
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