Kary Mullis Quotes

• Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

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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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• Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.

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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 can say exactly what I feel about any issue, and I’m going to do that.

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• Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

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• Science grows like a weed every year.

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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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• PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.

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

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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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• The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me.

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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.

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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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• 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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• Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.

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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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• 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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• 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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Kary Mullis (23)

Birth:	28th December, 1944
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Biochemist, Lecturer

About

Kary Banks Mullis is a Nobel Prize-winning American biochemist, author, and lecturer. In recognition of his improvement of the polymerase chain reaction technique, he shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Michael Smith and earned the Japan Prize in the same year. The process was first described by Kjell Kleppe and 1968 Nobel laureate H. Gobind Khorana, and allows the amplification of specific DNA sequences.

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