Kary Mullis Quotes

Kary Mullis — American Scientist born on December 28, 1944,

Kary Banks Mullis is a Nobel Prize-winning American biochemist, author, and lecturer. In recognition of his improvement of the polymerase chain reaction technique, he shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Michael Smith and earned the Japan Prize in the same year. The process was first described by Kjell Kleppe and 1968 Nobel laureate H. Gobind Khorana, and allows the amplification of specific DNA sequences. The improvements made by Mullis allowed PCR to become a central technique in biochemistry and molecular biology, described by The New York Times as "highly original and significant, virtually dividing biology into the two epochs of before P.C.R. and after P.C.R.".. (wikipedia)

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

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

Science grows like a weed 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.

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

Kary Mullis Quotes

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