Craig Venter

There are still so many questions to answer about the workings of the human body and, most mysterious of all, it is influenced by our state of mind.

I think I've achieved some good things; doing the first genome in history - my team on that was phenomenal and all the things they pulled together; writing the first genome with a synthetic cell; my teams at the Venter Institute, Human Longevity, and before that Celera.

If there is a race, it is one to bring the benefits of genomes to human therapeutics. We all want to get there. We all want people to have much more meaningful and productive lives as they age.

I don't see any absolute biological limit on human age.

I hope I'll be remembered for my scientific contribution to understanding life and human life.

You cannot look at a person's genes and say with any accuracy whether they are from one racial group or another.

Intellectual property is a key aspect for economic development.

That's the nice thing about the field of science - the test of time sorts out the truth.

As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design.

Your age is your No. 1 risk factor for almost every disease, but it's not a disease itself.

The Anthropocentic Age - the first age in which humankind is the dominant species on the planet - cuts both ways: it is up to us to destroy or save the planet. We certainly have the ability.

Bloomberg's, you know, for people who don't use the service, provides through the Internet - through specialized computers - information about the financial world. It's a very large data base. I think they have on the order of a billion dollars or more a year in revenue.