Juan Enriquez Quotes

One of the good things about the public Human Genome Project is that the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health spent a part of their budget on the ethical, legal, and social implications of their research.

- Juan Enriquez

It's not completely inconceivable that someday you'll be able to download your own memories.

- Juan Enriquez

If you want to compete in bioinformatics, first you need to compete for really smart people. You need really smart people who understand how to manipulate nanomolecules.

- Juan Enriquez

I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis:... a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the evolution of his species, her species and other species.

- Juan Enriquez

The difference between humans and Neanderthals is .004 percent of gene code. That's how big the difference is, one species to another.

- Juan Enriquez

The margin for making mistakes has gotten much smaller. In a commodity economy, it's hard to kill off your business. You still have the mine. You still have oil wells. You can always rebuild. In a knowledge economy, if you make a mistake, you're in trouble.

- Juan Enriquez