Top 33 Genes Genetics Quotes
#1. Creating a novel means moving into the past, the hoped for, the imagined. It is an emotional journey, fraught at times with characters who don't always do or say what a writer wishes.
Jacqueline Woodson
#2. Genes do not make you, any more than brain chemistry makes you hungry, food makes you breathe, breathing makes you die.
Johnny Rich
#3. I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here.
Bill Watterson
#4. In the past, geneticists have looked at so-called disease genes, but a lot of people have changes in their genes and don't get these diseases. There have to be other parts of physiology and genetics that compensate.
Craig Venter
#5. We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism
the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.
C.S. Lewis
#6. If there's any interaction between genes and languages, it is often languages that influence genes, since linguistic differences between populations lessen the chance of genetic exchange between them.
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
#7. That's what love is, Georgie. Accidental damage protection.
Rainbow Rowell
#8. I know genes are a big deal, son, but they're not the be-all and end-all." Rob slowed to a halt at the lights, wishing the dickhead behind would back off. "If they were, you'd be in a seafood salad and I'd be in prison.
Karen Traviss
#9. 138: Yo momma so stupid, she thought the bait at the Safari Zone was free food and the rocks were souvenirs
Pokemon Jokes
#10. [T]he cascade of discoveries in neuroscience and genetics has created an image of individuals as automata, slaves to their genes or neurotransmitters, with no more free will than a child's windup toy.
Jeffrey M. Schwartz
#11. To the question of whether sharing 96% of our genetic make-up with chimps makes us 96 percent chimp; we also share about 50% of our DNA with bananas - that does not make us half bananas!
Steve Jones
#12. TP53 seems to encode the greater good, like a suicide pill in the mouth of a soldier that dissolves only when it detects evidence that he is about to mutiny.
Matt Ridley
#13. I turned against the left wing because they don't like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.
James D. Watson
#14. I'm personally supportive of [marriage] equality for gay couples and I believe that it will happen over time.
Steve Schmidt
#15. People are going to singlel you out, so you might as well give them something to look at.
-Sadie Kane
Rick Riordan
#16. Drosophila has long been our main workhorse in genetics, yielding insight in the relation between chromosomes and genes.
Frans De Waal
#17. You will readily believe me when I say that on leaving my country, I little imagined that I should ever become a Baptist. I had not indeed candidly examined the subject of baptism, but I had strong prejudices against the sect, that is everywhere spoken against.
Adoniram Judson
#18. Meditation works in many layers. It works in our genes, in our DNA
Amit Ray
#19. My own area of expertise is the genetics of human disease. I was fortunate to be part of the team that found the genes for cystic fibrosis, and Huntington's disease and neurofibromatosis.
Francis Collins
#20. Not wonderful that you've forgotten, mind you. Wonderful that you have so much to discover.
Ted Dekker
#21. ...it is entirely illogical to consider biology in dichotomous terms of genes and environment - all of biology is based on the continuous interaction of both.
Peter Gluckman
#22. When a psychiatrist writes a bestseller, he is then urged to write a book of advice. But I think our culture's awash in advice. The problem is we don't know whether it applies to us or whether we're an exception.
Peter D. Kramer
#23. Except for the rare cases of plastid inheritance, the inheritance of all known cofactors can be sufficiently accounted for by the presence of genes in the chromosomes. In a word the cytoplasm may be ignored genetically.
Thomas Hunt Morgan
#24. With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.
Walter Lang
#25. (Although Darwin did not have genetics at hand to prove his case, we now know that humans and chimpanzees share 98 percent of their genes; humans and fruit flies share 44 percent of their genes.)
Virginia Morell
#26. Genes aren't designed to make us happy. They design us to make
more copies of themselves.
Joe Quirk
#27. It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.
Nicholas A. Christakis
#28. You inherit your environment just as much as your genes.
Johnny Rich
#30. I think it's fine for a singer to sing someone else's song. But the thing I don't like is when a singer that can write songs starts getting someone else to do it for them.
Howard Lawrence
#31. Genes do not make an individual homosexual. They play their part, but so does the rest of the universe.
Johnny Rich
#33. The platypus, as it turns out, derives its DNA from a menagerie of creatures. When its genome was fully decoded, it was found only to be 80% mammalian, and had genes found previously only in reptilian, bird, amphibian, and fish DNA.
B.C. Chase
