Kary Mullis
Kary Mullis
Kary Banks Mullisis a Nobel Prize-winning American biochemist, author, and lecturer. In recognition of his improvement of the polymerase chain reactiontechnique, 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth28 December 1944
CityLenoir, NC
CountryUnited States of America
And all I knew about drugs was what I read in magazines like Time and Life. I learned that marijuana was a dangerous addictive drug and that I should stay away from it.
I think I might have been stupid in some respects, it if weren't for my psychedelic experiences.
The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me.
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.
My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.
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.
Fish don't know much about water, and people didn't know much about air.
The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.
I can say exactly what I feel about any issue, and I'm going to do that.
I like writing about biology, not doing it.
Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.
I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
I'm really optimistic in the mornings.
I'm not driven by being understood.