Genes Quotes · Page 2

I try to stay in shape, I work out in the gym, take my vitamins every day, and I guess maybe I…

— Regis Philbin

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can't do anything about them.

— Angela Duckworth

A lot of guys have better genes but if you work hard and consistently, you can outperform them.

— Frank Zane

If we could switch off the aging gene we would. There's no technology that we've had that we haven't used. We are…

— Andrew Niccol

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

— Rita Levi-Montalcini

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

— Thomas Hunt Morgan

If by 'miracle kids' you mean innocent test-tube babies whose DNA was forcibly unraveled and merged with two percent avian genes, yeah,…

— James Patterson

I think there's such a thing, as a performance gene. If it's in your DNA it needs to come out. For me…

— Cillian Murphy

Nature designed with a random set of genes and circumstances in which we were born. To be happy, we have to accept…

— Chetan Bhagat

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

— Walter Gilbert

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

— Herbert Boyer

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

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

— Robert Winston

I have good genes in my family, so we'll see just how long I'll be around.

— Marcia Cross

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

— Bruce H. Lipton

I was very skinny, but that was just my natural build. I always ate sensibly - being thin was in my genes.

— Twiggy

The simple reason no embryo can develop without at least one X chromosome is that it's the X, not the Y, that…

— Kenneth R. Miller

I think maybe what happened was the convenience of technology overshadowed the experience of holding an album in your hands, and sitting…

— Dave Grohl

With my mom's and my dad's genes, me and my brother excelled in a lot of sports.

— Trinity Rodman

A large animal needs a large area. If you protect that area, you're also protecting thousands of other plants and animals. You're…

— George Schaller

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

There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague…

— Chris Isaak

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

— Lupita Nyong'o

We don't really know where human sexual orientations come from yet. What we do know is that the evidence we have that…

— Alice Dreger

Everything is now for sale. Even those areas of life that we once considered sacred like health and education, food and water…

— Maude Barlow