Those Genes Could Have Been Mine

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

I'm allergic to dogs, so I couldn't even adopt what gay men typically adopt when they have that maternal gene.

— Dan Savage

“Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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's face it, you have to have a slightly recessive gene that has a little something to do with the brain to go out…

— Tim Green

As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version…

— Maksim Chmerkovskiy

I always found that kind of hard, and even though Gene Kelly was also a taskmaster, Bobby [Fosse] was tougher.

— Debbie Reynolds

A renaissance in cellular biology has recently revealed the molecular mechanisms by which thoughts and perceptions directly influence gene activity and cell behavior...Energy psychology,…

— Bruce H. Lipton

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

And when I went to Houston, they had a conditioning coach by the name of Gene Coleman. And that was the first time I…

— Nolan Ryan

Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes…

— Joseph Bruchac

We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness…

— Lewis Thomas

Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience.

— Daniel J. Siegel

The families in positions of great financial power obsessively interbreed with each other. But I'm not talking about one Earth race, Jewish or non-Jewish.…

— David Icke

If we studied human beings which can include human genes, human blood samples, and human behavior, then you can leave the animals out of…

— Neal Barnard