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Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

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.

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.

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.

I can say exactly what I feel about any issue, and I'm going to do that.

I'm not politically correct.

I'm really optimistic in the mornings.

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.

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.

It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.

Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.

My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.

PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.

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.

People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.

Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

Science grows like a weed every year.

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.

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

They can't pooh-pooh me now, because of who I am.

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so 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.

I like writing about biology, not doing it.

I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.

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.

If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.

You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.

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

You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.

I'm not driven by being understood.

Natural DNA is a tractless coil, like an unwound and tangled audiotape on the floor of the car in the dark.

My mother often mailed me articles from 'Reader's Digest' about advances in DNA chemistry. No matter how I tried to explain it to her, she never grasped the concept that I could have been writing those articles, that something I had invented made most of those DNA discoveries possible.

My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North Carolina in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. My dad's family had a general store, which I never saw. My grandparents on his side had already died before I started noticing things.

Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception of a few modern conveniences, had not changed a lot over the years.

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.

I went to high school in Columbia. I met my first wife, Richards, whom I married while I was working on a B.S. in chemistry at Georgia Tech. She bore Louise, and I studied. I learned most of the useful technical things - math, physics, chemistry - that I now use during those four years.

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