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
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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.
Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.
You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.
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.
Science grows like a weed every year.
I'm not politically correct.
We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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.
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.
I like writing about biology, not doing it.
I can say exactly what I feel about any issue, and I'm going to do that.
The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.
My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.