Kary Mullis Quotes
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.
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.
You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.
Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes.
Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.
We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.
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.
The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.
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.
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.
I think I might have been stupid in some respects, it if weren't for my psychedelic experiences.
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.
My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.
Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.
If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.
