Kary Mullis Quotes (32 Quotes)

People say to me, How many people have you seen die of this disease They say, You don't know what causes it because you've never watched them die.

You don't discover the cause of something like AIDS by dealing with incredibly obscure things. You just look at what the hell is going on.

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

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

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.

A lot of people studying this disease are looking for clever little pathways they can piece together that will show how this works.

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

Science grows like a weed every year.

The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me.

Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.

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

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

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.

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

I'm really optimistic in the mornings.

We can make the chemicals we've talked about, make them into drugs and make them available. It ought to take the virus out in 24 hours.

For the first time, our chemistry is sophisticated enough that we can take control of the machine that has been keeping us alive, the immune system,

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.

Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.

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

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

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

I'm not politically correct.

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.

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.

The immune system only works when you're prepared or when the thing that you've got takes a long time to develop,

The global warmers ... predict that global warming is coming, and our emissions are to blame. They do that to keep us worried about our role in the whole thing. If we aren't worried and guilty, we might not pay their salaries. It's that simple.

I hate this kind of crap. I'd like to write about something that's easy to write about, where you don't have to come up with a conclusion in the end.

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.

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

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.

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.