Craig Venter Human Quotations

It appears that the human genome does indeed contain deserts, or large, gene-poor regions.

Even with seemingly simple things like eye color, you can't tell from my genetic code whether I have blue eyes or not. So it's naive to think that complex human behaviors, like risk-seeking, are driven by changes in one or two genes.

Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short.

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've always been fascinated with adrenaline; it's saved my life more than once, and it's caused me to need it to save my life more than once. One of the most fascinating responses in human evolution, adrenaline sharpens your brain; it sharpens your responses.

People think that Celera's trying to patent the whole human genome because it's been used as - I guess people in Washington learn how to do political attacks, and so it gets used as a political weapon, not as a factual one.

The mouse genome is an invaluable tool to interpret the human genome.

I turned 65 last year, and each year I get more and more interested in human health. For most people it happens around age 50, but I've always been a slow learner. It's critical in terms of the cost of health care.

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

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.

The Janus-like nature of innovation - its responsible use and so on - was evident at the very birth of human ingenuity, when humankind first discovered how to make fire on demand.