Genes themselves are made of bits.

“Where, then, is any particular gene—say, the gene for long legs in humans? This is a little like asking where is Beethoven’s Piano Sonata…

— James Gleick

At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.

— Richard Dawkins

With worms you can just change genes at random and see if you can find a mutant that does what you want it to…

— Cynthia Kenyon

We don't get to pick the genes we want. There's room in this world for beauty to be diverse.

— Lupita Nyong'o

Recently, results of the Human Genome Project have shattered one of Science's fundamental core beliefs, the concept of genetic determinism. We have been led…

— Bruce H. Lipton

Of course it is a very simple matter to identify genes which might modify intelligence or memory and start thinking about whether you want…

— Robert Winston

Industry is far more efficient than the university in making use of scientific developments for the public good. Reported in 1981, as a co-founder…

— Herbert Boyer

We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.

— Walter Gilbert

“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

As for the presence of large NGF [nerve growth factor] sources in snake venom and male genital organs, they may be conceived as instances…

— Rita Levi-Montalcini

“The genes are master programmers, and they are programming for their lives.”

— Richard Dawkins

“Thus, for our purposes, genes aren’t about inevitability. Instead they’re about context-dependent tendencies, propensities, potentials, and vulnerabilities. All embedded in the fabric of the…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

This is a whole new era where we're moving beyond little edits on single genes to being able to write whatever we want throughout…

— George M. Church

Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.

— Richard Dawkins

But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.

— Steven Pinker