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
People say to me, How many people have you seen die of this disease? They say, You don`t know what causes it because you`ve never watched them die.
Kary Mullis
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
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
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
I hate this kind of crap. I`d like to write about something that`s easy to write about, where you don`t have to come up with a conclusion in the end.
Kary Mullis
Here`s a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn`t work because a lot of them got sick. That`s the conclusion. You don`t necessarily know why it happened. But you start there.
Kary Mullis
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
Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I`m the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.
Kary Mullis
You don`t discover the cause of something like AIDS by dealing with incredibly obscure things. You just look at what the hell is going on.
Kary Mullis
