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. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#back #been #black #boyhood #easy

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

— Kary Mullis

#certain #happen #idea #reincarnation #somewhere

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

#carolina #columbia #considered #could #dynamite

It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#blaming #did #fault #just #something

Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#enslaving #freeing #law #us

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

— Kary Mullis

#catalogues #christmas #give #let us #me

PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#easier #hiv #infected #made #people

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

#even #hypothetical #interactions #molecules #more

People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#else #going #hell #knows #man

Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#focused #inwardly #itself #only #religion