Quotes About Craig Venter

We're a country of laws and rules, and the Supreme Court has ruled that life forms are patentable entities.

We need 10,000 genomes, not 100, to start to understand the link between genetics, disease and wellness.

You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.

San Francisco is one of my favorite cities on the planet.

Microbes make up 80 percent of all biomass, says microbiologist Carl Woese. In one-fifth of a teaspoon of seawater, there are a million bacteria (and 10 million viruses), Craig Venter says, adding, "If you don't like bacteria, you're on the wrong planet. This is the planet of the bacteria

I naively thought that we could have a molecular definition for life, come up with a set of genes that would minimally define life. Nature just refuses to be so easily quantified.

I wrote an editorial piece in 'Science' about the nightly data release and how I thought it was bad for science as a field, I think a few years before Celera was formed.

I've made money by just trying to do world-class science. That's the goal that we're setting at Celera. If we do world-class science and create new medicine paradigms, the money will more than follow at a corporate level and at a personal level.

There's a lot of what I call 'bio-babble' and hype out there from a lot of bioenergy companies.

The most controversial player was the wild and abrasive Craig Venter, who had worked in a U.S. Navy field hospital as a draftee during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War