“I think I'm a survivor. I could have suffered at least 100 professional deaths. I could come up with a list of the 100 times I've come closest to death, from having pneumonia as a child to car crashes.”
Craig Venter“I think future engineered species could be the source of food, hopefully a source of energy, environmental remediation and perhaps replacing the petrochemical industry.”
Craig Venter“The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.”
Craig Venter“Life is a DNA software system.”
Craig Venter“I think I'm a survivor. I could have suffered at least 100 professional deaths. I could come up with a list of the 100 times I've come closest to death, from having pneumonia as a child to car crashes.”
Craig Venter“Creating life at the speed of light is part of a new industrial revolution. Manufacturing will shift from centralised factories to a distributed, domestic manufacturing future, thanks to the rise of 3D printer technology.”
Craig Venter“Sometime in the future, I am a hundred percent certain scientists will sit down at a computer terminal, design what they want the organism to do, and build it.”
Craig Venter“As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design.”
Craig Venter“Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature.”
Craig Venter“Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment.”
Craig Venter“In a biological system, the software builds its own hardware, but design is critical, and if you start with digital information, it has to be really accurate.”
Craig Venter