Inside of a living cell there are thousands of proteins that enable it to make more of itself and make your malaria drug, for instance. We don't understand those. We don't understand how they work together.
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In the test tube, I can make any DNA I want, recombining it from monkeys, worms, anywhere. So I can explore new rules of breeding with molecules.
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I know how to do science. I know how to make things. I don't know how to run a company. Now that's a really tough job.
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Science and technology are going to be the basis for many of the solutions to social problems.
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I've been called pushy and aggressive and all the negative words that are rarely applied to men with the same traits. But it doesn't bother me.
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Proteins aren't designed, they're evolved.
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