My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.
Meaning of the quote
For this quote, Kary Mullis is describing how his mother would let him and his brothers choose their own Christmas gifts from a stack of catalogs. This shows that his mother trusted her children to make their own decisions and pick the presents they really wanted, rather than just telling them what they would get. This is a kind and thoughtful way for parents to involve their kids in the gift-giving process.
About Kary Mullis
Kary Mullis was an American biochemist who invented the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique, for which he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1993. However, he also held some controversial views on topics like climate change and AIDS.
More quotes from Kary Mullis
The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me.
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PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.
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I’m really optimistic in the mornings.
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Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.
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My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.
American biochemist, Nobel Prize winner, AIDS denialist, climate change denialist
The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.
American biochemist, Nobel Prize winner, AIDS denialist, climate change denialist
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.
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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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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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Science grows like a weed every year.
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They can’t pooh-pooh me now, because of who I am.
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I’m not politically correct.
American biochemist, Nobel Prize winner, AIDS denialist, climate change denialist
We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
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It’s not blaming the victim. It’s not anybody’s fault. They just did something that didn’t work, that’s all.
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Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.
American biochemist, Nobel Prize winner, AIDS denialist, climate change denialist
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.
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Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.
American biochemist, Nobel Prize winner, AIDS denialist, climate change denialist
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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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.
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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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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.
American biochemist, Nobel Prize winner, AIDS denialist, climate change denialist
People realize this man knows what the hell’s going on and nobody else does.
American biochemist, Nobel Prize winner, AIDS denialist, climate change denialist
I can say exactly what I feel about any issue, and I’m going to do that.
American biochemist, Nobel Prize winner, AIDS denialist, climate change denialist