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… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception… — 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
