Quotes About Genome Project

#1. The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today not by the dead hand of tradition but by modernity itself, and they can be salvaged only by moving beyond it.

Harvey Cox

#2. Even if we never cure a single disease, the Human Genome Project and other ventures will have been worth it.

Sam Kean

#3. 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

#4. It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions.

Samuel Wilson

#5. Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.

J. Philippe Rushton

#6. A thought enters; we pamper it; it germinates and grows into an evil act.

Billy Graham

#7. Once a genetic component has been established, the search for the genes involved can begin. This is a time-consuming and complex process that has recently been greatly facilitated by the information obtained by the Human Genome Project.51

Joseph E. Ledoux

#8. The Human Genome Project has given us a genetic parts list.

Leroy Hood

#9. For the primary and secondary school years, we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and private schools.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#10. The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand.

Thomas R. Cech

#11. Idle hands make fretful minds.

Shelley Shepard Gray

#12. I have stretched ropes from bell-tower to bell-tower; garlands from window to window; chains of gold from star to star, and I dance.

Arthur Rimbaud

#13. Before the Human Genome Project, most scientists assumed, based on our complex brains and behaviors, that humans must have around 100,000 genes; some estimates went as high as 150,000.

Sam Kean

#14. Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.

Victor Hugo

#15. I want her back" I said "I want HIM back"~Charlie

Ann M. Martin

#16. 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

#17. In the late 1970s, when I was a professor at Caltech, I pioneered four instruments for analyzing genes and proteins that revolutionized modern biology - and one of these, the automated DNA sequencer, enabled the Human Genome Project.

Leroy Hood

#18. Courage, dear miss! Courage! Business! The worst will be over in a moment; it is but passing the room-door, and the worst

Charles Dickens

#19. So change the plan and then stick to it!

Rick Riordan

#20. When you see natural disasters caught on film you realize how well they had been imagined by Hollywood for such a long time. It's all good fun. You never know who's gonna survive and who doesn't.

Jared Harris

#21. I don't know all the facts on Iraq, but I think we should work closely with the Americans.

Stephen Harper

#22. The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

Samuel Johnson

#23. Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.

John Frusciante

#24. I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#25. While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require.

Samuel Wilson

#26. One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.

Samuel Wilson

#27. Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that's quality software!

Bjarne Stroustrup

#28. I swear, if I ever get my hands on the wicked witch I'm going to witch-slap her.

Quinn Loftis