--- title: "8 Geneticist Quotes by 6 authors" description: "Browse 8 Geneticist quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Geneticist sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/682/bill-gaede-20559_anthropology_a-geneticist-is-a-geek-who-claims-to-hav_30631.jpg" --- > [“A geneticist is a geek who claims to have proven through regression analyses that a Neanderthal had sex with your great-grandmother 50,000…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-gaede/a-geneticist-is-a-geek-who-claims-to-have-proven-through-regression/) [Bill Gaede](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-gaede/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/682/bill-gaede-20559_anthropology_a-geneticist-is-a-geek-who-claims-to-hav_30631.jpg) > [My father himself was a human geneticist who was recognized for demonstrating that older mothers tend to get more Down syndrome children,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-penrose/my-father-himself-was-a-human-geneticist-who-was-recognized-for/) [Roger Penrose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-penrose/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/542/roger-penrose-10729_children_my-father-himself-was-a-human-geneticist_116177.jpg) > [“The biochemist's approach pivots on concentration: find the protein by looking where it's most likely to be concentrated, and distill it out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siddhartha-mukherjee/the-biochemist-s-approach-pivots-on-concentration-find-the-protein-by/) [Siddhartha Mukherjee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siddhartha-mukherjee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/702/siddhartha-mukherjee-1619_evolution_the-biochemist-s-approach-pivots-on-conc_305956.jpg) > [I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-faith/i-d-like-to-be-a-geneticist-to-be-honest-but-there-are-limits-to-what/) [Adam Faith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-faith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/193/adam-faith-66868_being-honest_i-d-like-to-be-a-geneticist-to-be-honest_763331.jpg) > [“As the geneticist J.B.S. Haldane had described it in 1923, once the power to control genes had been harnessed, "no beliefs, no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siddharta-mukherjee/as-the-geneticist-j-b-s-haldane-had-described-it-in-1923-once-the/) [Siddharta Mukherjee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siddharta-mukherjee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/065/siddharta-mukherjee-40937_faith_as-the-geneticist-j-b-s-haldane-had-desc_1126735.jpg) > [I look forward to the day when a mongolian idiot, treated biochemically, becomes a successful geneticist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerome-lejeune/i-look-forward-to-the-day-when-a-mongolian-idiot-treated/) [Jerome Lejeune](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerome-lejeune/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/624/jerome-lejeune-47006_geneticist_i-look-forward-to-the-day-when-a-mongoli_1257908.png) > [“Geneticists are a group of mathematicians who have taken over the Neanderthal Paleontology Guild. They call the shots now.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-gaede/geneticists-are-a-group-of-mathematicians-who-have-taken-over-the/) [Bill Gaede](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-gaede/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a68/bill-gaede-20559_geneticist_geneticists-are-a-group-of-mathematician_3077727.png) > [“After a handful of geeks sequenced the Neanderthal genome and found a 2% match, they opened the flood gates to hundreds of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-gaede/after-a-handful-of-geeks-sequenced-the-neanderthal-genome-and-found-a/) [Bill Gaede](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-gaede/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52c/bill-gaede-20559_anthropology_after-a-handful-of-geeks-sequenced-the-n_3169708.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/geneticist/#itemlist", "name": "Geneticist Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“A geneticist is a geek who claims to have proven through regression analyses that a Neanderthal had sex with your great-grandmother 50,000 years ago.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bill Gaede" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-gaede/a-geneticist-is-a-geek-who-claims-to-have-proven-through-regression/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/682/bill-gaede-20559_anthropology_a-geneticist-is-a-geek-who-claims-to-hav_30631.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/682/bill-gaede-20559_anthropology_a-geneticist-is-a-geek-who-claims-to-hav_30631.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/682/bill-gaede-20559_anthropology_a-geneticist-is-a-geek-who-claims-to-hav_30631.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A geneticist is a geek who claims to have proven through regression analyses that a Neanderthal had sex with…” — Bill Gaede", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My father himself was a human geneticist who was recognized for demonstrating that older mothers tend to get more Down syndrome children, but he had lots of scientific interests.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Roger Penrose" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-penrose/my-father-himself-was-a-human-geneticist-who-was-recognized-for/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/542/roger-penrose-10729_children_my-father-himself-was-a-human-geneticist_116177.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/542/roger-penrose-10729_children_my-father-himself-was-a-human-geneticist_116177.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/542/roger-penrose-10729_children_my-father-himself-was-a-human-geneticist_116177.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“My father himself was a human geneticist who was recognized for demonstrating that older mothers tend to get…” — Roger Penrose", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The biochemist's approach pivots on concentration: find the protein by looking where it's most likely to be concentrated, and distill it out of the mix. 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