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Kary Mullis
American
Scientist
About the author
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.
Kary Mullis,
American
Scientist
#Writing
#Spiders
Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.
Kary Mullis,
American
Scientist
#Law
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.
Kary Mullis,
American
Scientist
#War
#Universe
#Kings
#Thoughts
#Possession
Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there.
Kary Mullis,
American
Scientist
#People
#Work
I can say exactly what I feel about any issue, and I'm going to do that.
Kary Mullis,
American
Scientist
Science grows like a weed every year.
Kary Mullis,
American
Scientist
#Science
Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
Kary Mullis,
American
Scientist
#Art
#Fashion
I'm really optimistic in the mornings.
Kary Mullis,
American
Scientist
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.
Kary Mullis,
American
Scientist
#World
Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.
Kary Mullis,
American
Scientist
#Science
Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.
Kary Mullis,
American
Scientist
#Religion
People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.
Kary Mullis,
American
Scientist
#People
#Man
#Hell
People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so.
Kary Mullis,
American
Scientist
#People
PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.
Kary Mullis,
American
Scientist
#People
My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.
Kary Mullis,
American
Scientist
#Mother
#Brothers
#Christmas
I'm not politically correct.
Kary Mullis,
American
Scientist
Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.
Kary Mullis,
American
Scientist
#People
#Night
#Care
The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.
Kary Mullis,
American
Scientist
#Mystery
It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.
Kary Mullis,
American
Scientist
#Work
#Fault
They can't pooh-pooh me now, because of who I am.
Kary Mullis,
American
Scientist
#Now
We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
Kary Mullis,
American
Scientist
#Desire
We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.
Kary Mullis,
American
Scientist
#Enemies
#Childhood
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.
Kary Mullis,
American
Scientist
#Kids
#Play
#Feet
#Hardware
The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me.
Kary Mullis,
American
Scientist
#Pretty
#Horror