Now that we can read and write the genetic code, put it in digital form and translate it back into synthesized life, it will be possible to speed up biological evolution to the pace of social evolution.
The gene 'klotho' was named after the Greek Fate purported to spin the thread of life, because it contributes to longevity.
We can now diagnose diseases that haven't even manifested in the patient, and may not until the fifth decade of life - if at all.
The Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed by the experience. I was one of the fortunate few who came out better off.
One of the fundamental discoveries I made about myself - early enough to make use of it - was that I am driven to seize life and to understand it. The motor that pushes me is propelled by more than scientific curiosity.
I am confident that life once thrived on Mars and may well still exist there today.
I am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environment.
I've always been fascinated with adrenaline; it's saved my life more than once, and it's caused me to need it to save my life more than once. One of the most fascinating responses in human evolution, adrenaline sharpens your brain; it sharpens your responses.
The pace of digitizing life has been increasing exponentially.
We're a country of laws and rules, and the Supreme Court has ruled that life forms are patentable entities.
Life was so cheap in Vietnam. That is where my sense of urgency comes from.
The day is not far off when we will be able to send a robotically controlled genome-sequencing unit in a probe to other planets to read the DNA sequence of any alien microbe life that may be there.
You can't have life without the genetic code.
I hope I'll be remembered for my scientific contribution to understanding life and human life.
Creating life at the speed of light is part of a new industrial revolution. Manufacturing will shift from centralised factories to a distributed, domestic manufacturing future, thanks to the rise of 3D printer technology.
I naively thought that we could have a molecular definition for life, come up with a set of genes that would minimally define life. Nature just refuses to be so easily quantified.
The trouble is the field of science, medicine, universities, biotech companies - you name it - have been so splintered, layers, sub-divided, hacked that people can spend their entire career studying one tiny little cog of life.