I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done.

- Craig Venter

It is my belief that the basic knowledge that we're providing to the world will have a profound impact on the human condition and the treatments for …

- Craig Venter

You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.

- Craig Venter

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

- Craig Venter

Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.

- Craig Venter

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

- Craig Venter

Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made.

- Craig Venter

Most drugs work on only about a third of the population, they do no damage to another third, and the final third can have negative consequences.

- Craig Venter

I have the modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry.

- Craig Venter