Top 100 Quotes About Dna

#1. I do think that's one of the strengths of the show is every year there's sort of the giant rock gets thrown into the stream and Selina has to figure out how to get around the rock. It's in Veep's DNA, whether anyone realized it or not, to constantly be changing.

David Mandel

#2. The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it has to do with tone because tone is the key signature for the poem. The basis of trust for a reader used to be meter and end-rhyme.

Billy Collins

#3. Gollum's never really gone too far away from me because he's indelibly kind of printed into my DNA now, I think.

Andy Serkis

#4. We all have very different musical DNA, and we all follow different musical paths. Yet there is a unifying quality about rock'n'roll that helps instill confidence and hope in millions of fans at times in their lives when little else makes sense.

Robert Hilburn

#5. If there is as a continuum from self-reproducing molecules, such as DNA, to microbes, and an evolutionary sequence continuum from microbes to humans, why should we imagine that continuum to stop at humans?

Carl Sagan

#6. You too can win Nobel Prizes. Study diligently. Respect DNA. Don't smoke. Don't drink. Avoid women and politics. That's my formula.

George Wells Beadle

#7. Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen.

Fareed Zakaria

#8. We really invented the genre of tracing family trees and going back as far as we could on the paper trail. When the paper trail disappeared, we used DNA analysis. The technology was just being invented that allowed you to trace ancestry through DNA.

Henry Louis Gates

#9. Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.

Paul Berg

#10. Your sister is the only creature on earth who shares your heritage, history, environment, DNA, bone structure, and contempt for stupid Aunt Gertie.

Linda Sunshine

#11. We have the DNA of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Herschel Walker

#12. Grace and truth are spiritual DNA, the building blocks of Christ-centered living.

Randy Alcorn

#13. Well, the human genome has massive redundancy - that means that two per cent of the DNA does all the work of instructing the ribosomes that build the proteins that make up the cells of your body. Ninety-eight per cent of your DNA just sits there doing nothing. Taking up space in the gene.

Ian McDonald

#14. I have motorsport in my DNA and there's no way I can stay away from that world.

Maria De Villota

#15. Now you're gonna take beatings. It's written in our DNA, you know. You're gonna go down. You get up, it's that simple.

Travis Rice

#16. The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?

Nathan Myhrvold

#17. Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.

Vartan Gregorian

#18. I grew up on the Roger Moore and Sean Connery Bond movies, so the DNA of my spies is extremely ridiculous and goofy.

Nick Harkaway

#19. The choices and decisions we make in terms of how we use the land ultimately affect our very DNA. Environmental issues are life issues.

Terry Tempest Williams

#20. human red blood cells have no nuclei and thus possess no DNA of their own.

Tara Rodden Robinson

#21. I'm not a plastic surgeon, and I cannot change the DNA of a person, but when I see a woman try on my clothes and she feels beautiful, I know I am doing my job.

Alber Elbaz

#22. I am compelled to continuously see the bright side. It is in my DNA. My kids look at me and say: 'Mom, you're so happy!' And I do feel happy. I feel joyful inside. I can't explain it.

Goldie Hawn

#23. My dog's name is Tucker, and his DNA is unidentifiable and suspect.

Bruce Cameron

#24. In fact, scientists have shown that the better your DNA, your genetic machinery is at healing itself, the longer you live. That's how meditation lowers biological age.

Deepak Chopra

#25. Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.

James D. Watson

#26. Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-genera ted robots will take over our world.

Stephen Hawking

#27. Perhaps none of us were actually made to live a hurried life. Perhaps a desire to live slowly and intentionally resonated deeply in the core DNA of just about all of us.

Tsh Oxenreider

#28. Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#29. I have no regrets. I have not one single regret. I was born with a wonderful DNA where I felt that my life was not a race against someone else or another artist. It was probably internal.

Andy Kim

#30. The thing that defines a species is that all members have the same addressing system for their DNA.

Richard Dawkins

#31. DNA is an abbreviation for deoxyribonucleicantidisestablishmentarianism, a complex string of syllables.

Dave Barry

#32. ...causing her eyes to bulge and her tongue to flick from behind her luscious lips, scaring away insects." - Amok 2015

Fred Barnett

#33. That which we cannot see rules us," she said. She stared into her drink. "I mean particles, electrons, electromagnetic forces. Secrets. Love. Time. Fear. DNA. What we cannot see controls our lives." She

Eric Bosse

#34. A war is coming, a battle that will stretch from the prehistoric forests of the ancient past to the cutting-edge research labs of today, all to reveal a true mystery buried deep within our DNA, a mystery that will leave readers changed forever .

James Rollins

#35. We carry stores of DNA in our nuclei that may have come in, at one time or another, from the fusion of ancestral cells and the linking of ancestral organisms in symbiosis. Our genomes are catalogues of instructions from all kinds of sources in nature, filed for all kinds of contingencies.

Lewis Thomas

#36. Imagine a house coming together spontaneously from all the information contained in the bricks: that is how animal bodies are made.

Neil Shubin

#37. By God's design, he has wired his children for spiritual reproduction. He has woven into the fabric of every single Christian's DNA a desire and ability to reproduce.

David Platt

#38. Science Fiction and Romance share the same DNA. At their very heart, they are about exploration and discovery.

Laurie A. Green

#39. You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it's all coming from you.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#40. The results suggest a helical structure which must be very closely packed containing probably 2, 3 or 4 coaxial nucleic acid chains per helical unit and having the phosphate groups near the outside.

Rosalind Franklin

#41. Transposons are just small pieces of DNA that randomly insert in the genetic code. And if they insert in the middle of the gene, they disrupt its function.

Craig Venter

#42. To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full picture of the world.

Rupert Sheldrake

#43. All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule.

Lewis Thomas

#44. There are many ways of casting molecular spells using DNA. What we really want to do in the end is learn how to program self-assembly so that we can build anything.

Paul W. K. Rothemund

#45. But since anagram-related clues are now inadmissible as evidence, we sent the pork pie off for DNA analysis and managed to pinpoint the pie shop where it was purchased.

Jasper Fforde

#46. What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone's library is like peeking into their DNA

Guillermo Del Toro

#47. During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA could influence the study of genetics and I was an early and active proponent of the Human Genome Sequencing Project.

Sydney Brenner

#48. How do you know your Colossus is the genuine article in the first place?
I read his mind.
I matched his DNA.
I smelled him.
I also did that.

Joss Whedon

#49. conundrums in biology: this is the fact that our genes, which supposedly define us as a species, but also distinguish you or I or anyone else on the planet from each other, make up only 2 per cent of our DNA. The other 98 per cent had been written off as 'junk';

John Parrington

#50. If you can surrender your protection devices, in order to track the potentially raw and perhaps elusive emotions that are the song's DNA, then that is creative vulnerability, which is ultimately hugely empowering.

Tori Amos

#51. It turns out that every person alive today can trace his or her ancestry back to Africa. Everyone's DNA tells a story of a journey from an African homeland to wherever you live.

Spencer Wells

#52. What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether.

Jeremy Rifkin

#53. And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.

Salvador Dali

#54. Everyone in Denmark has at least two or three sailors in their family; sea travel is part of the DNA of our nation, and because of that, I'd always wanted to tell a story aboard a ship.

Tobias Lindholm

#55. I feel weird spilling it now but have to. Because after a while, it took root, the way shared stories do when you live with them long enough. They affect your DNA like radiation. They give birth to you.

Kelly J. Cogswell

#56. In Los Angeles, the Police Department buys a 40-foot refrigerated trailer truck every six months just to hold DNA evidence.

Bill Dedman

#57. Our responses are the fingerprint of our heart and the DNA of our conscience.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#58. DNA is like Midas's gold, everyone who touches it goes mad.

Maurice Wilkins

#59. Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur. Doing things differently and solving problems with new, innovative and fresh approaches are the very reason many start-ups are able to compete and sometimes outpace the established market leaders.

Richard Branson

#60. I love art that haunts me, that stays with me, that is left embedded in my mind. I don't really think there is any use for owning or collecting art; it is more about remembering and preserving it in the minds eye and allowing it into your cultural DNA.

Doug Aitken

#61. They say to just write about what's happening in your backyard because that's where you find the most creativity. It's in the DNA of the show. There's no question.

Mitchell Hurwitz

#62. Most learning is social, or what I call the cultural DNA. Everyone knows that word of mouth advertising is the best advertising. That's social learning.

Stephen Covey

#63. Thank luck and DNA.

John Green

#64. It's not a great song unless it makes your DNA remember Eden and your spirit long for Home.

Mark Lowry

#65. By faith you need to walk like a king, talk like a king, think like a king, dress like a king, smile like a king. Don't go by what you see. Go by what you know. There is royalty in your DNA. You have the blood of a winner. You were created to reign in life.

Joel Osteen

#66. I didn't grow up with my dad, so it was always very funny to me, and always has been, what an important part DNA plays in one's life.

Kiefer Sutherland

#67. The first thing that has to be recognized is that one cannot train someone to be passionate
it's either in their DNA or it's not.

Richard Branson

#68. DNA is not the heart's destiny; the genetic lottery may determine the cards in your deck, but experience deals the hand you can play.

Thomas Lewis

#69. There are as many atoms in each molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. This is true for dogs, and bears, and every living thing. We are, each of us, a little universe.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#70. People used to say that advertising wasn't in Google's DNA, and that's obviously not true anymore. They used to say that display advertising isn't in Google's DNA, and that's not true any more.

Susan Wojcicki

#71. I was curious, given the swimming pools of booze I've guzzled over the years - not to mention all of the cocaine, morphine, sleeping pills, cough syrup, LSD, Rohypnol ... there's really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive. Maybe my DNA could say why.

Ozzy Osbourne

#72. Toshiaki learned that all living organisms were governed by their DNA. He was impressed by perfection of this system.Why did existence have the ability to design such a beautiful code? And how could such a simple structure account for endless diversity of life forms?

Hideaki Sena

#73. Meditation works in many layers. It works in our genes, in our DNA

Amit Ray

#74. Every single human cell contains "DNA," which is a special molecule that your body leaves behind at crime scenes so the police can identify you.

Dave Barry

#75. They [some countries] borrowed money to go acquire things, Indian power plants and Danish newspapers and British soccer teams. And they did it willy-nilly, and they themselves a story, that Icelandic history and culture and DNA leaves us very well-suited to being investment bankers.

Michael Lewis

#76. People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is exceptional because we were founded upon the notion that everyone should be free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.

Rand Paul

#77. scientists took a run-of-the-mill white rabbit embryo, implanted in its DNA a gene taken from a green fluorescent jellyfish,

Yuval Noah Harari

#78. 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

#79. What does "success" mean to you? Was Mother Teresa a "success"? Was your favorite teacher a "success"? Were your parents, grandparents, your pastor, your best friends a "success"? Success is as personal as a fingerprint or DNA; you must define it for yourself.

Bob Teague

#80. I grew up in such a musical family, and my dad was the first chair in the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra, and my mom was a piano teacher and a painter, so it was kind of a creative environment, and it was kind of in my DNA.

Trevor Rabin

#81. To invoke the origin of the DNA/protein machine by invoking a supernatural Designer is to explain precisely nothing - for it leaves unexplained the origin of the Designer.

Richard Dawkins

#82. Providing for the ones he loves and care about, whether it's monetarily or with sweat equity, is part of a man's DNA, and if he loves and cares for you, this man will provide for you all these things with no limits.

Steve Harvey

#83. But colonization had a nasty tendency to work its way into the DNA, the beliefs and philosophies and the very ways of life of the people being colonized.

Drew Hayden Taylor

#84. We are the lucky ones for we shall die, as there is an infinite number of possible forms of DNA all but a few billions of which will never burst into consciousness.

Frank Close

#85. Talk to Arto Lindsay and I'm sure he's tired of people asking him about DNA; he's probably really into what he's doing now, which is good stuff. I guess I probably feel like that. But I'm obviously not comparing myself to someone as iconic as that.

Bradford Cox

#86. With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.

Patricia Cornwell

#87. [Professor Pauling] confesses that he had harboured the feeling that sooner or later he would be the one to get the DNA structure; and although he was pleased with the double-helix, he 'rather wished the idea had been his'.

Linus Pauling

#88. I make my decisions and my judgments not based on what a prime minister of another country says, but based on what my principles tell me, how may DNA guides me.

Steve Israel

#89. You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or it's not at all.

Sandra Bernhard

#90. DNA is not an autocrat. Animal behaviour is also influenced by environmental factors and individual quirks.

Yuval Noah Harari

#91. You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#92. Cities vary widely in the use of DNA testing.

Bill Dedman

#93. We've got DNA tests; we can convict someone by his saliva. Hell, if the killer had farted in that house the forensic team would probably have some gadget that could pick it up. How can the crime scenes be so clean?

Chris Carter

#94. DNA is a 'thing' - a chemical that sticks to your fingers.

Sam Kean

#95. Joseph Mandell and I began by attempting to make chromatography of DNA work.

Alfred Hershey

#96. When I began playing around at being a physical chemist, I enjoyed very much doing work on the structure of DNA molecules, something which I would never have dreamed of doing before I started.

Alfred Hershey

#97. Cath didn't feel, for the moment, like her DNA was a trap ready to snap closed on her.

Rainbow Rowell

#98. Hating L.A. was in my Northern California DNA. We even had a burl plaque that hung on our living room wall that read, "We Don't Give a Damn How it's Done in L.A.

Antonia Crane

#99. 'Boy,' 'October,' 'War,' 'The Unforgettable Fire' and 'The Joshua Tree,' those records, they're part of my musical DNA and structure.

Taylor Hawkins

#100. We were so created to worship God that it is probably embedded in our spiritual DNA itself!

Gangai Victor

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