Kary Mullis

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.