An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Genes are not about inevitabilities; they're about potentials and vulnerabilities. — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
You have only three real friends: Jesus Christ, Sears Roebuck, and Gene Talmadge. — Eugene Talmadge Copy Share Image
I've always been antagonistic to any naïve application of the selfish gene theory to politics. Some people have attempted to suggest that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When you hang around a lot of comedians long enough, you realize there's a certain gene, in every comedian. It's why we… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
Every animal would rather die themselves than lose their offspring. But it's just genes, isn't it? All of our existence is spent… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
Parasites are not only incredibly diverse; they are also incredibly successful. There are parasitic stretches of DNA in your own genes, some… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
Think of all the human suffering caused by the sad truth that beautiful sexy women or handsome Porsche-owning men often prove to… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Natural selection based on the differential multiplication of variant types cannot exist before there is material capable of replicating itself and its… — Hermann Joseph Muller Copy Share Image
Paleontologists do not have to search for famous "missing link" from which humans supposedly came, and current great apes. This link is… — Janusz Korwin-Mikke Copy Share Image
Contrary to what we've been taught, genes do not determine physical and character traits on their own. Rather, they interact with the… — David Shenk Copy Share Image
We have the same genetic code for all living creatures. We have a large number of genes that are manifestly the same,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Grapes are juicy. Strawberries. Oranges. Good pork chops are succulent," said Dusty. "But the word isn't accurately descriptive of a person." Smiling… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Any idiot can build bombs. Our Trinity sits not on some desert sand seared into glass at an abandoned, sad pillar of… — Bill Whittle Copy Share Image
In fact, [Gene Wilder] had made a hysteric seem considerably less funny in his film debut as a terrified undertaker in "Bonnie… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
Complex organisms cannot be construed as the sum of their genes, nor do genes alone build particular items of anatomy or behavior… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We can change the expression of more than 70 percent of the genes that have a direct bearing on our health and longevity. — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory. — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
We have Borna virus genes. We're part Borna virus, which is weird, but apparently our cells and our genomes in a weird… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless… — Richard Dawkins 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
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