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. — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
I went to high school in Columbia. I met my first wife, Richards, whom I married while I was working on a B.S. in chemistry at Georgia Tech. She bore Louise, and I studied. I learned most of the useful… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
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… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North Carolina in the foothills of the Blue Ridge… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
My mother often mailed me articles from 'Reader's Digest' about advances in DNA chemistry. No matter how I tried to explain it to her,… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
Natural DNA is a tractless coil, like an unwound and tangled audiotape on the floor of the car in the dark. — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
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… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year. — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does. — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion is inwardly… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
