Kary Mullis Quotes

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• Fish don't know much about water, and people didn't know much about air.
• Global warmers predict that global warming is coming, and our emissions are to blame. They do that to keep us worried about our role in…
• My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.
• 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.
• The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me.
• Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion is inwardly focused…
• There is a general place in your brain, I think, reserved for melancholy of relationships past. It grows and prospers as life progresses, forcing you…
• I think I might have been stupid in some respects, it if weren't for my psychedelic experiences.
• Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
• And all I knew about drugs was what I read in magazines like Time and Life. I learned that marijuana was a dangerous addictive drug…
• Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes ...
• We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
• Science grows like a weed every year.
• 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…
• The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.
• I can say exactly what I feel about any issue, and I'm going to do that.
• I like writing about biology, not doing it.
• Its not even probable, let alone scientifically proven, that HIV causes AIDS. If there is evidence that HIV causes AIDS, there should be scientific documents…
• 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…
• I'm really optimistic in the mornings.

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