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Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Sometimes innovators have to turn to private funding to get things done. Kai Ryssdal talks with Craig Venter about how he funded research into the human genome.
Genomics pioneer J. Craig Venter during a speech in New York in March 2006. (Michael Nagle/Getty Images)
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"Of course everyone has their prerogative, but as for me the sounds of children are wonderful things. How dull and lonely it is without lively little ones running and jumping around. I believe this is another example of our culture's aversion to children and their vitality. Give them a pill and then they'll be quiet, or take a pill and then you won't have them, that's the philosophy. My wife and I have seven boys ages four months to 10 years. The days are filled with boisterous, and yes loud, thumping, bumping activity. However, without that, the silence would kill."
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