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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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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
Kary Mullis
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Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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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.
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The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.
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Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
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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.
Kary Mullis
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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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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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People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.
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It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.
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PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.
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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.
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I'm not politically correct.
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Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.
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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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Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
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I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.
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Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.
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I'm really optimistic in the mornings.
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You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.
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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.
Kary Mullis