My greatest vanity is my skin. It is the colour of gingerbread and, thanks to my mother's genes, smooth and mostly blemish-free. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
We Icelanders are an excellent animal model for humans. This is exactly the way you find common disease genes. — Kari Stefansson Copy Share Image
If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
No one but Gene Tierney could have played 'Laura.' There was no other actress around with her particular combination of beauty, breeding,… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
If you think about a child that is born and how it's born, if it has racism in his genes, every child… — John Assaraf Copy Share Image
“if you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife. — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
Of course it is a very simple matter to identify genes which might modify intelligence or memory and start thinking about whether… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family… — Gary Cole Copy Share Image
He has a calsium deposit on the medulla oblongota of his brain, but he is a brilliant man. This man has a… — Lou Albano Copy Share Image
What are all of us but self-reproducing robots? We have been put together by our genes and what we do is roam… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
[Antinatalism ] seems to oppose the idea of writing anything at all. To reproduce is to pass on genes. To write is… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The theory I'm putting forward here is that storytelling is a genetic characteristic in the sense that early human hunters who were… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“While genes are pivotal in establishing some aspects of emotionality, experience plays a central role in turning genes on and off. DNA… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
There is nothing to learn about love. Everything is already there, in our genes, in our nature. We don't have to learn… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
There's a kind of a line between music and math, so I guess I got the music gene, thank goodness. But my… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
A cancer is not simply a lung cancer. It doesn't simply have a certain kind of appearance under the microscope or a… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
Renegade scientists and totalitarian loonies are not the folks most likely to abuse genetic engineering. You and I are-not because we are… — Arthur Caplan Copy Share Image
As an evolutionary biologist, I have learned over the years that most people do not want to see themselves as lumbering robots… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
A renaissance in cellular biology has recently revealed the molecular mechanisms by which thoughts and perceptions directly influence gene activity and cell… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
The sale of sex in modern societies is not about spreading genes. Sex has been taken over by the memes. — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
My whole family is missing that sports gene. I hope I didn't screw that up by marrying a great golfer. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Genes are very important at the individual level but these differences tend to cancel at the national level. — Richard H. Steckel Copy Share Image
As humans, we have evolved to compete... it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition. — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic. — Lorna Luft Copy Share Image
My mother loved Gene Wilder when I was growing up, so I used to watch all his movies with her. I just… — Lucy Punch Copy Share Image
According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Each Fall the graves of my grandfathers call me, the brown hills and red gullies of mississippi send out their electric messages,… — Etheridge Knight Copy Share Image
The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that has an incomplete set of… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
I was a huge Della Reese fan, when Della Reese was on. I idolized all the panelists. I was in love with… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
The success gene lives in every person regardless of the results they are presently getting - we are spiritual beings and spirit… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
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