Quotes About Human Genome Project

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Leroy Hood

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Sam Kean

#10. Women find men attractive who are aggressive ... but later on, they get worried that that aggression, that alpha energy, is going to be turned back against them and their children.

Bryan Callen

#11. Silver was too hard to be good ammunition.

Patricia Briggs

#12. He's my cat! He's not God's cat! Let God have his own cat! Let God have all the damn old cats He wants, and kill them all! Church is mine!

Stephen King

#13. If quantum mechanics is how reality structures itself, then the world is far weirder than we think. It is truly a wonderful time to write Science Fiction!

Stavros Halvatzis

#14. Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.

Sallust

#15. Jean-Louis had never had a day's illness in his life. He was tall and as gnarled as an oak. The sun had baked his skin until it had the colour and toughness and stillness of a tree. With advancing years, he had lost his tongue. He now never spoke, considering such an activity pointless.

Emile Zola

#16. My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

King George V

#17. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Oliver Goldsmith

#18. My mother is brilliant but emotional and very much gregarious and connected to people. My father was brilliant but focused and driven and very narrow-casted.

Justin Trudeau

#19. Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers?

Martin Goldsmith

#20. Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.

Jodi Picoult

#21. Being without you, Julianne, is like enduring an endless night without stars.

Sylvain Reynard

#22. I had a wonderful and very successful career in New York and had the privilege of working with some of the best editors and publishers in the business.

Teresa Medeiros

#23. 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

#24. Life wasn't just any one thing. It was a combination... a melting pot of emotions, a mix of salty and sweet.

Cambria Hebert