Quotes from Kary Mullis

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.

People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.

You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.

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.

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.

If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.

I'm really optimistic in the mornings.

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.