Quotes About The Gene Pool

#1. Stupidity is the chlorine that cleans out the gene pool.

Scott M. Baker

#2. The gene pool could use a deep end

Josh Stern

#3. If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught?

Robert J. Sawyer

#4. And I tell you one thing, if the primates that we came from, had know that someday politicians would come out of the gene pool, they would have stayed up in the trees and written evolution off as a bad idea.

John Sheridan

#5. Are the people who run for president really the best in a country of 240 million? If so, something has happened to the gene pool.

Bob McKenzie

#6. We tried to help them. They're too far gone. If we let them in, the gene pool would fragment and wither. We can't allow that.

Colin F. Barnes

#7. After this, he'd probably be going to zoos, climbing the enclosure, saying, 'Here, watch this...' Famous last words, as yet another unfit human is removed from the gene pool.

Kelley Armstrong

#8. Likewise, everyone at the Circle there had been chosen, and thus the gene pool was extraordinary, the brainpower phenomenal. It was a place where everyone endeavored, constantly and passionately, to improve themselves, each other, share their knowledge, disseminate it to the world.

Dave Eggers

#9. Darwin's theory is as dead as he is. Everyone is surviving, fit or not. Years ago, any kid dumb enough to chase a shiny object down a well was dead, and out of the gene pool. Now they got the technology and medicine to save the fool so he can breed more open mouth breathers.

Lenny Bruce

#10. The gene pool ran pretty small on the Arizona Strip.

Betty Webb

#11. What really happens is that the gene pool becomes filled with genes that influence bodies in such a way that they behave 'as if' they made complex, if unconscious, cost/benefit calculations

Richard Dawkins

#12. The theory of eugenics postulated a crisis of the gene pool leading to the deterioration of the human race. The

Michael Crichton

#13. The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.

David Gerrold

#14. Let's face it, the gene pool needs a little chlorine.

Jimmy Carr

#15. Running around in the grass near an unsecured structure and a bunch of trees is a good way of taking yourself out of the gene pool.

Mira Grant

#16. You get diarrhea out here, you dehydrate from the inside out - you leave the gene pool.

Cody Lundin

#17. What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool?
You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done.

Temple Grandin

#18. I'm just another reject slowly slipping out of the gene pool to get hoovered up by the sex industry.

Mark Corrigan

#19. Most accidents, I'm convinced, are God's way of getting rid of stupid people. Or if you believe in Darwinism, you wonder why there are any stupid people left in the world. Well, I guess they can reproduce before they remove themselves from the gene pool.

Nelson DeMille

#20. Those men who on the off-chance happened to be taller than her often had some genetic species-survival switch tripped in their brain that made them crave women on the opposite end of the height spectrum, to balance out the gene pool.

Sara King

#21. Oh, sheez, what's Syd Vicious doing back in town? (Payne)
How'd the testicle retrieval go, Payne? You still limping? ... Thought so. I got the thank-you card from Planned Parenthood last week. Seems they want to honor me for saving the gene pool. (Syd)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#22. Nothing else is going to matter if we kill the earth and we kill the food and we destroy the gene pool and there aren't any people around to enjoy the earth.

Rosalie Bertell

#23. Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.

Edward Abbey

#24. I must confess, when I see anyone with an Obama 2012 bumper sticker, I recognize them as a threat to the gene pool.

Allen West

#25. Over generations, the gene pool of the first farmers became increasingly dominated by individuals who could drink beer on a regular basis. Most of the world's population today is made up of descendants of those early beer drinkers, and we have largely inherited their genetic tolerance for alcohol.

Steven Johnson

#26. His parents had skimmed from the very top of the gene pool to make that mouth.

C.D. Reiss

#27. Eugenics was central to the entire Nazi enterprise, joined with romantic nativist and racist myths of the pure-bred Nordic. The emphasis on 'blood' called for a purifying of the nation's gene pool, so that Germans could regain the nobility and greatness of their genetically pure forebears.

Alison Thompson

#28. There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague resemblance to the hillbilly gene pool that Elvis came from. People would say, 'You want to be Elvis' and I would say, 'No'.

Chris Isaak

#29. It was about then that the effects of great wealth and a small gene pool started to spell their doom.

Jonathan L. Howard

#30. There are actually people who go out and re-fight these battles. You know what I say? Use real ammunition! You just might raise the intelligence level of the American gene pool!

George Carlin

#31. Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!

Charles Stross

#32. I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.

Abigail Washburn

#33. Are the different species defined by paleontologists - Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis and ourselves, Homo sapiens - all part of the same gene pool or not?

Bryan Sykes

#34. Someone once referred to modeling as being like winning the lottery gene pool. It's such an odd way to put things, but what is different about modelling is that the industry often picks you.

Erin O'Connor

#35. Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking.

Frances Mayes

#36. Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.

Gene Tierney

#37. The massive quantities of radiation that would be released in a war fought with nuclear weapons might, over time, cause such great changes in the human gene pool that following generations might not be recognizable as human beings.

Helen Caldicott

#38. There is no intrinsic tendency in gene pools for particular genes to increase or decrease in frequency. But when there is a systematic increase or decrease in the frequency with which we see a particular gene in a gene pool, that is precisely and exactly what we mean by evolution.

Richard Dawkins

#39. The only other person attending who was close to her age was Father St. Laurent, a devastatingly good-looking Roman Catholic priest who made the RC's vows of celibacy seem like a crime against the human gene pool.

Julia Spencer-Fleming