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Kary Mullis is a renowned American scientist and author. He is best known for inventing the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique, which has had a profound impact on molecular biology and medical research. Born on December 28, 1944, Mullis's work has not only advanced scientific progress but also contributed to the health and well-being of countless people around the world.

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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.”

Knows Writing Littles Kids Easy Stuff Black Farms Grandfather Little Kid Spiders My Grandfather Widows Boyhood Black Widow

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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.”

People Has Beens Ready Benefits Beneficial Not Ready

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

Years Produce Devices Consistently Miraculous Crops Dazzling

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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.”

Play Kids Feet South Stores Carolina Weird Things Hardware Columbia Fuse Dynamite South Carolina

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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.”

People Realizing Reactions Interaction Molecules Hypothetical

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

People Knows Water Air Ocean Fishes

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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.”

Ifs Whole Might Simple Pay Roles Blame Guilty Worried Global Warming Salary Emissions Kyoto Kyoto Protocol

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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.”

Giving Wanted Mother Brother Picks Christmas My Brother Catalogues

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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.”

World Feels Sometimes Morning Surfing Surf Surfer

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“The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me.”

Looks Seems Horror Scary Scar Halloween

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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.”

Years Art Law Grows Subjects Mankind Fashion Art Is Institutions Focused Driven Weed 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.”

Thinking Country Past Grows Brain Progress Judgment Melancholy Reserved

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

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Might Stupid Might Have Been Psychedelic Psychedelic Experience

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“Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.”

Art Subjects Fashion Art Is Architecture Arbitrary

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“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.”

Should Dangerous Drug Magazines Marijuana Life And Time

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“Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes.”

Ideas Sometimes Science Mistake Lucky Mathematics Mathematical Combination Good Ideas Coincidence Improbable Naivete

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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.”

Ifs Desire Creativity Creative Method Active Scientific Method

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“Science grows like a weed every year.”

Years Grows Weed Marijuana

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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.”

Enemy Cases Childhood Weapons Our Children Nuclear Fortunate Hiding Nuclear Weapons Desks Eyebrows

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

Years Has Beens Mystery Billions Damn Viruses Umpires

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“I can say exactly what I feel about any issue, and I'm going to do that.”

Feels I Can Issues

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“I like writing about biology, not doing it.”

Writing Biology

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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.”

Ifs Should Facts Causes Evidence Aids Documents Proven Probability Hiv

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“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.”

War Universe Gone Century Kings Possession Description 17th Century

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“I'm really optimistic in the mornings.”

Morning Optimistic

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“Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.”

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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.”

World Mind Helping Names My Own Scientist Awful Damage Ashamed Attacking Fraternity

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“I'm not politically correct.”

Politically Correct

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“I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.”

Bigs Crowds Entertainers Microphones

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“I'm not driven by being understood.”

Understood Driven

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

Ifs Ideas Happens Certain Universe Reincarnation

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

Social Successful Fit Currents Explanation Fabric Making Up

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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.”

Want Asks Bigger Quantity Rockets Pharmacist Potassium

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Born: December 28, 1944
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