Quotes About Genetic Testing

#1. A moral principle in genetic testing is that it should always be done with the consent of the individual. No one wants someone snooping into his DNA.

Arthur Caplan

#2. Genetic testing in the future is going to be seen as critical as testing your cholesterol.

Anne Wojcicki

#3. A lot of genetic testing hasn't been integrated into healthcare because it has been expensive. I want to make people realise that they have the ability to be in charge of their own health.

Anne Wojcicki

#4. 'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.

Ramez Naam

#5. Accuracy in the genetic field will be essential. Errors in testing could be disastrous.

Craig Venter

#6. Craftsmen and artisans created items that were brittle rumors compared with his father's iron facts.

Colson Whitehead

#7. Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#8. I believe one half of the world is born for the convenience of the other half ...

Sarah Siddons

#9. The strongest drug for a human being is another human being!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#10. I get everything that satisfies my soul from bringing together objects that are in the world, manipulating them, working with spatial arrangements, and having things presented in the way I want to see them.

Fred Wilson

#11. They had been a couple for so long that everyone thought of them as Tom-and-Jenny, a single unit.

L.J.Smith

#12. We may neglect the wrongs which we receive, but be careful to rectify those which we are the cause of to others.

Orville Dewey

#13. Most people in Iceland are either referred to as the son or daughter of their father. For example, a woman with a father named John is Johnsdaughter, or in Icelandic Jonsdottir. A man with a father named John is Johnsson, or Jonsson in Icelandic.

Gudjon Bergmann

#14. Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer to continue working on it so that later I may recognize it as a work of my mind.

Henri Matisse

#15. We were never children like your children. We do not understand love songs like your inamorata.

Charles Bukowski

#16. It is particularly pleasing to see how purely basic research, originally aimed at testing the genetic identity of different cell types in the body, has turned out to have clear human health prospects.

John Gurdon

#17. Life is always happening for you, not to you. Appreciate that gift, and you are wealthy, now and forever.

Anthony Robbins

#18. I lay there, stretched out, looking at the one star visible through the tiny window of the room. Only connect. How can you do that when the connections are broken?

Jeanette Winterson

#19. Getting to do what I think was my fifth BBC drama with Nikki Amuka-Bird - we've done 'Shoot The Messenger,' 'Five Days,' 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency,' 'Born Equal' and now 'Small Island' - was another highlight for me. And filming in Jamaica was great, too.

David Oyelowo

#20. A pessimist asked God for relief. Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness, said God. No, replied the petitioner, I wish you to create something that would justify them. The world is all created,said God, but you have overlooked something

Ambrose Bierce