My mother would give my ...

My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.
 Kary Mullis

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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.
 Kary Mullis
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.
 Kary Mullis