Kary Mullis Quotes
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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.
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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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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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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.
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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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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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I like writing about biology, not doing it.
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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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People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.
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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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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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Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
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I'm not politically correct.
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I'm really optimistic in the mornings.
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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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PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.
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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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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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Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.
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In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.
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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.
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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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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.