Top 164 Quotes by Craig Venter

Once we all have our genomes, some of these extremely rare diseases are going to be totally predictable.

Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment.

We can create new food substances.

Companies, cities, and potentially even individuals could have a small refinery to make their own fuel.

One important part of scientific training is that scientists learn the boundaries, the safety issues, how to properly deal with and dispose of chemicals and reagents.

I have this idea of trying to catalog all the genes on the planet.

The problem with existing biology is you change only one or two genes at a time.

There's not going to be any one replacement for oil: we need to have hundreds of solutions to this global issue.

Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature.

Everybody is looking for a naturally occurring algae that is going to be a miracle cell to save the world, and after a century of looking, people still haven't found it.