Sam Kean Quotes

I fell in love with the elegance and precision of genetic analysis and experimentation to answer profound biological questions.

Accuracy in the genetic field will be essential. Errors in testing could be disastrous.

I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about genetic information and what you can and cannot learn. One of the things we try to do is educate individuals that knowing information is empowering.

When I was 16, my dad took me to a DNA conference at the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco, California, and I was captivated by this way of looking at biology and by the discussions of bits of nucleic acid that could make us sick.

We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.

The Human Genome Project has given us a genetic parts list.

I was using very unconventional methods to sequence the telemetric DNA, originally.

In college, I had an early introduction to classical genetics from Professor Dan Lindsley, also an extraordinary teacher who influenced me greatly.

Just as computer technology and the Internet created whole new industries and extraordinary benefits for people that extend into almost every realm of human endeavor from education to transportation to medicine, genetics will undoubtedly benefit people everywhere in ways we can't even imagine but know will surely occur.

We all want our genetic information. Why would you not want genetic information?

As the knowledge around personalized medicine continues to grow, consumers should expect their healthcare providers to begin to incorporate genetic information into their treatments and preventative care.

I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.

Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.

I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.

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The science of genetics will complicate immensely national health insurance.

When the principles of breeding and of inheritance are better understood, we shall not hear ignorant members of our legislature rejecting with scorn a plan for ascertaining by an easy method whether or not consanguineous marriages are injurious to man.

Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring

I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about genetic information and what you can and cannot learn.

My family and I were some of the first people to be genotyped.

Genetic testing in the future is going to be seen as critical as testing your cholesterol.

Being the first FDA-authorized direct-to-consumer genetic test out there is revolutionary.

I think we're just scratching the surface. One of the most exciting aspects of 23andMe is that we're enabling you to watch a revolution unfold live during your lifetime, and I think that the decoding of the genome, in my opinion, is the most fascinating discovery of our lifetime, and you get to be part of it.

My DNA is building a product and a service.

One of the most exciting aspects of 23andMe is that we're enabling you to watch a revolution unfold live during your lifetime, and I think that the decoding of the genome, in my opinion, is the most fascinating discovery of our lifetime, and you get to be part of it.