Kary Mullis famous quotes

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
-- Kary Mullis

#Fashion #Art #Arbitrary

Its 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.
-- Kary Mullis

#Hiv #Causes #Facts

I like writing about biology, not doing it.
-- Kary Mullis

#Writing #Biology

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

#Issues #Feels

I think I might have been stupid in some respects, it if weren't for my psychedelic experiences.
-- Kary Mullis

#Stupid #Thinking #Might

There is a general place in your brain, I think, reserved for melancholy of relationships past. It grows and prospers as life progresses, forcing you finally, against your better judgment, to listen to country music.
-- Kary Mullis

#Country #Past #Thinking

The horror of it is, every ***** thing you look at seems pretty scary to me.
-- Kary Mullis

#Halloween #Scary #Looks

Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself, law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.
-- Kary Mullis

#Weed #Fashion #Art

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

#Years #Crops #Produce

Science grows like a weed every year.
-- Kary Mullis

#Weed #Marijuana #Years

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.
-- Kary Mullis

#Eyebrows #Childhood #Enemy

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

#Years #Umpires #Viruses

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

#Creativity #Creative #Desire

Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes ...
-- Kary Mullis

#Mistake #Science #Ideas

And all I knew about drugs was what I read in magazines like Time and Life. I learned that ***** was a dangerous addictive drug and that I should stay away from it.
-- Kary Mullis

#Marijuana #Drug #Magazines

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.
-- Kary Mullis

#Writing #Kids #Black

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.
-- Kary Mullis

#Kids #Play #Feet

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

#People #Molecules #Realizing

Fish don't know much about water, and people didn't know much about air.
-- Kary Mullis

#Ocean #Air #People

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.
-- Kary Mullis

#Simple #Might #Pay

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

#Christmas #Mother #Brother

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.
-- Kary Mullis

#Morning #Surfing #World

You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.
-- Kary Mullis

#Want #Potassium #Rockets

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.
-- Kary Mullis

#Successful #Fabric #Fit

If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.
-- Kary Mullis

#Ideas #Reincarnation #Certain

I'm not driven by being understood.
-- Kary Mullis

#Driven #Understood

I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
-- Kary Mullis

#Crowds #Bigs #Microphones

I'm not politically correct.
-- Kary Mullis

#Politically Correct

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

#Names #Mind #World

I'm really optimistic in the mornings.
-- Kary Mullis

#Morning #Optimistic

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.
-- Kary Mullis

#Kings #War #Gone

Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.
-- Kary Mullis

#Law