Kary Mullis quotes

Kary Mullis was an American biochemist best known for inventing the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique. This groundbreaking method transformed molecular biology and medical diagnostics. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his innovative work. Here are 37 of his quotes:

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. (Kary Mullis)
We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire. View quote
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Science grows like a weed every year. View quote
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My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas. View quote
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It's not even probable, let alone scientifically proven, that HIV causes AIDS. If there is evidence that HIV causes AIDS, there should be scientific documents which either singly or collectively demonstrate that fact, at least with a high probability. There are no such documents. Spin Magazine, Vol. 10 No.4, 1994. View quote
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Art is subject to arbitrary fashion. View quote
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The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it. View quote
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Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm not politically correct. View quote
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You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket. (Kary Mullis)
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. View quote
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Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Years from now, people will find our acceptance of the HIV theory of AIDS as silly as we find those who excommunicated Galileo. View quote
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Where is the research that says HIV is the cause of AIDS? There are 10,000 people in the world now who specialize in HIV. None has any interest in the possibility HIV doesn't cause AIDS because if it doesn't, their expertise is useless. View quote
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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. View quote
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I can say exactly what I feel about any issue, and I'm going to do that. View quote
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I'm really optimistic in the mornings. View quote
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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. (Kary Mullis)
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. View quote
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Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric. View quote
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People keep asking me, "You mean you don't believe that HIV causes AIDS?" And I say, "Whether I believe it or not is irrelevant! I have no scientific evidence for it." I might believe in God, and He could have told me in a dream that HIV causes AIDS. But I wouldn't stand up in front of scientists and say, "I believe HIV causes AIDS because God told me." I'd say, "I have papers here in hand and experiments that have been done that can be demonstrated to others." View quote
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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. View quote
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Kary Mullis

Occupation: American Biochemist
Born: December 28, 1944
Died: August 7, 2019
Quotes count: 37
Wikipedia: Kary Mullis

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