Kary Mullis

Scientist

1944-12-28

Quotes by Kary Mullis

• 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 to war to possess.

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• Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

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• 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.

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• Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.

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• My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.

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• The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.

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• In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.

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• I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.

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