Craig Venter

The Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed by the experience. I was one of the fortunate few who came out better off. ”

I am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environment. ”

I am confident that life once thrived on Mars and may well still exist there today. ”

We're a country of laws and rules, and the Supreme Court has ruled that life forms are patentable entities. ”

The day is not far off when we will be able to send a robotically controlled genome-sequencing unit in a probe to other planets to read the DNA sequence of any alien microbe life that may be there. ”

Life was so cheap in Vietnam. That is where my sense of urgency comes from. ”

The pace of digitizing life has been increasing exponentially. ”

We can now diagnose diseases that haven't even manifested in the patient, and may not until the fifth decade of life - if at all. ”

A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease. ”

There is a long history of how DNA sequencing can bring certainty to people's lives. ”