Geniuses -

genius craig venter

Craig Venter

I was a surf bum wannabe. I left home at age 17 and moved to Southern California to try to take up surfing as a vocation, but this was in 1964, and there was this nasty little thing called the Vietnam War. As a result, I got drafted.

You Might Also Be Interested In:

genius craig venter

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

genius craig venter

We can create new ways to create clean water.

genius craig venter

I have an unusual type of thinking. I have no visual memory whatsoever. Everything is conceptual to me.

genius craig venter

Cells will die in minutes to days if they lack their genetic information system. They will not evolve, they will not replicate, and they will not live.

genius craig venter

Even with seemingly simple things like eye color, you can't tell from my genetic code whether I have blue eyes or not. So it's naive to think that complex human behaviors, like risk-seeking, are driven by changes in one or two genes.

genius craig venter

It turns out synthesizing DNA is very difficult. There are tens of thousands of machines around the world that make small pieces of DNA - 30 to 50 letters in length - and it's a degenerate process, so the longer you make the piece, the more errors there are.