Quotes About Genomics

#1. Genomics are about individuals. It's about what's specific to you, not your siblings, not your parents - each of us is totally unique. We will only see that uniqueness by drilling down to the genetic code.

Craig Venter

#2. In the 1960s and '70s, there wasn't much evidence at all. We knew vaguely the causes of cancer, but methods like genomics were very new.

Harold E. Varmus

#3. Like the early days of the Internet, the dawn of personal genomics promises benefits and pitfalls that no one can foresee.

Steven Pinker

#4. (One of the great emancipating results of genomics is to show that all "racial" and color differences are recent, superficial, and misleading.)

Christopher Hitchens

#5. In an age of molecular genomics, it is ever more apparent that the fingerprints of evolution are pressed deeply into human DNA, just as they are into the genomes of every other organism. Biologists understand this, and so do students who study the science of life.

Kenneth R. Miller

#6. We are still working with an incomplete compass. The time is right to bring the full power of genomics to bear on the problem of cancer.

Francis Collins

#7. In genomics, there's a massive amount of information in which you can look for patterns and develop insights.

Bill Maris

#8. The dirty little secret of genomics is that we still know next to nothing about how a genome translates into the particularities of a living and breathing individual. If

Svante Paabo

#9. The genomics revolution, proteomics, metabolomics, all of these 'omics' that sound so terrific on grants and on business plans. What we're doing is we are seizing control of our evolutionary future. I mean we're essentially using technology to just jam evolution into fast-forward.

Gregory Stock

#10. Now we have technology where we can modify the genomics of individuals by gene transfer and genetic meddling, we may find that people will want to modify their children, enhance their intelligence, their strength and their beauty and all the other so-called desirable characteristics.

Robert Winston

#11. When you think about it, caring for patients is 99 percent information and 1 percent intervention, so it's clear that with or without genomics, the paradigm is shifting. Bioinformatics brings a cutting edge capacity to healthcare.

Christopher G. Chute

#12. The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common.

Truman Capote

#13. The more power you have, the less you can truly say. That's the irony.

Michael Soll

#14. Then what's the problem?" He was getting irritated now. "Are you scared, V? Scared that fucking me might turn into something more?" Taunting her, he continued, "Scared that I might just be able to get past that impenetrable outer shell?

Nicole Edwards

#15. I don't text, I don't have a Blackberry. Literally, I just have a cell phone that I haven't programmed and the whole Bluetooth. No. I don't even have an earpiece for my cell phone.

Steve Carell

#16. If perfect's what you're searching for, then just stay the same.

Bruno Mars

#17. Don't want to lose you.

Maya Banks

#18. Yeah, there has to be a few screws loose when a girl asks you to drop everything to spend a three-day weekend on very short notice, and you say okey dokey without a care in the world.

Yawatta Hosby