“As the geneticist J.B.S. Haldane had described it in 1923, once the power to control genes had been harnessed, "no beliefs, no values, no institutions are safe.” — Siddharta Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“The rediscovery of Mendel's laws of heredity in the opening weeks of the 20th century sparked a scientific quest to understand the nature and… — Siddharta Mukherjee Copy Share
“As the geneticist J.B.S. Haldane had described it in 1923, once the power to control genes had been harnessed, "no beliefs, no values, no… — Siddharta Mukherjee Copy Share
“Some may smile and may feel that this is but a new version of the old dream of the perfection of man. It is… — Siddharta Mukherjee Copy Share
“When power is discovered, man always turns to it," Bateson wrote darkly. "The science of heredity will soon provide power on stupendous scale; and… — Siddharta Mukherjee Copy Share
“This was the missing link in Darwin's Logic: reproductive incompatibility, ultimately derived from genetic incompatibility, drove the origin of novel species.” — Siddharta Mukherjee Copy Share
“Muller was catapulted into the international fame by his discovery. The effect of radiation on the mutation rate in flies had two immediate implications.… — Siddharta Mukherjee Copy Share
“Phenotype, in short, drags genotypes behind it, like a cart pulling a horse. It is the perennial conundrum of natural selection that it seeks… — Siddharta Mukherjee Copy Share
“It isn't creativity that fades, but stamina: science is an endurance sport” — Siddharta Mukherjee Copy Share
“The circular flow of biological information - Genes encode RNAs to build Proteins to form/regulate Organisms that sense Environments that influence Proteins, RNA that… — Siddharta Mukherjee Copy Share
“Gene, protein, function, and fate were strung in a chain: one chemical alteration in one base pair in DNA was sufficient to "encode" a… — Siddharta Mukherjee Copy Share
