The test of whether or not you can hold a job should not…

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

— Bella Abzug

“Except for the rare cases of plastid inheritance, the inheritance of all known cofactors can be sufficiently accounted for by the presence of genes…

— Thomas Hunt Morgan

“You'd better leave your chromosomes at the door.”

— John Irving

Sometimes no matter how well you prepare, no matter how conservative your decision making, no matter how few Y chromosomes are along on your…

— Pam Houston

Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes.

— Robert Mankoff

Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But…

— Richard Dawkins

Although life is a continuous process, fertilization is a critical landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new, genetically distinct human organism is thereby formed……

— Ronan O'Rahilly

The male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage

— Valerie Solanas

The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from…

— Christopher Hitchens

When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an…

— Brand Blanshard

If I could put my finger on it, I'd bottle it and sell it. I came down here originally in 1972 with some drunken…

— John Goodman

Royal blood isn't blue, it is a jaundiced shade of red and riddled with broken chromosomes

— Dean Cavanagh

This is a strange book: visionary and dark. It stutters out a kind of music: repeated phrases which accumulate errors and mutate as they…

— Rae Armantrout

Yes, there's genetics. Yes, there are chromosomes. Yes, there's biology. Yes, there are environment, sociology, parenting, economics, class, and all of that. But there…

— James Hillman

In mathematics and science, there is no difference in the intelligence of men and women. The difference in genes between men and women is…

— Christiane Nusslein-Volhard