Kary Mullis Quotes

• 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

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• 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.

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  Hiv, Causes, Facts

  Spin Magazine, Volume 10, No. 4, 1994.

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• Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

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  Fashion, Art, Arbitrary

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• 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.

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  Country, Past, Thinking

  Kary Mullis (2010). “Dancing Naked in the Mind Field”, p.13, Vintage

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• 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, Kyoto Protocol, Salary

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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.

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  Names, Mind, World

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

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  Years, Crops, Produce

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• 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.

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  People, Molecules, Realizing

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

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  Years, Umpires, Viruses

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• 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.

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  Weed, Fashion, Art

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

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  Creativity, Creative, Desire

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

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  Successful, Fabric, Fit

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• Science grows like a weed every year.

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  Weed, Marijuana, Years

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

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  Stupid, Thinking, Might

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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.

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  Morning, Surfing, World

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• I'm not driven by being understood.

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  Driven, Understood

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• I'm not politically correct.

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  Politically Correct

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• Fish don't know much about water, and people didn't know much about air.

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  Ocean, Air, People

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• Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.

  Kary Mullis

  Law

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• There are a lot of people for whom psychedelics have been really beneficial. But I wouldn't recommend it to everyone. Some are just not ready but society would benefit from letting people who are ready for psychedelics have legal acces to them.

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  People, Benefits, Ready

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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

  Want, Potassium, Rockets

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• 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.

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  Writing, Kids, Black

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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.

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  Christmas, Mother, Brother

  Kary Mullis (2010). “Dancing Naked in the Mind Field”, p.26, Vintage

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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.

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  Kids, Play, Feet

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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.

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  Eyebrows, Childhood, Enemy

  Kary Mullis (2010). “Dancing Naked in the Mind Field”, p.27, Vintage

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