Kary Mullis Quotes
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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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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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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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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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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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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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Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
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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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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'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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I like writing about biology, not doing it.
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I'm really optimistic in the mornings.
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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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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 realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.
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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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My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.
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Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.
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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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Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.
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Science grows like a weed every year.
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PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.