The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent. — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
“To the question of whether sharing 96% of our genetic make-up with chimps makes us 96 percent chimp; we also share about… — Steve Jones Copy Share Image
We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that… — Olympia Snowe Copy Share Image
We all understand genetics. You get your eyes from your dad, your mom's nose, there's nothing you can do about that. But… — Chris Gardner Copy Share Image
A lot of people think PMI is the genome project 2.0. No. This is about all the influences on disease - genetics… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Reincarnation, at least as I conceive it, does not nullify what we know about evolution and genetics. It suggests, however, that there… — Ian Stevenson Copy Share Image
In the course of individual development, inherited characters appear, in general, earlier than adaptive ones, and the earlier a certain character appears… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
According to current research, in the determination of a person's level of happiness, genetics accounts for about 50 percent; life circumstances, such… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
When we say 'less fortunate,' we generally mean the poor rather than the disabled, who actually are less fortunate. In truth, the… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
If we start with chimpanzees, they differ from us with the composition of the DNA by only just over one percent. So,… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
My only wish would be to have 10 more lives to live on this planet. If that were possible, I'd spend one… — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
If A denotes one of the two constant traits, for example, the dominating one, a the recessive, and the Aa the hybrid… — Gregor Mendel Copy Share Image
“I've always been a pretty good researcher," said Bronwyn modestly. Oh, so that we share, thought Myfanwy, but you didn't inherit the… — Daniel O'Malley Copy Share Image
“You're not supposed to interject feelings into science, but part of the reason it's so fascinating that we're 8 percent (or more)… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA could influence the study of genetics… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
I got 'Scandal,' and that was, far and away, the biggest deal that had happened in my career. Simultaneously, the stress from… — Katie Lowes Copy Share Image
From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad personality types - each… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
“Illness might progressively vanish so might identity. Grief might be diminished, but so might tenderness. Traumas might be erased but so might… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
My sense is that we may not need the language of innateness or genetics to understand that we are all ethically bound… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“The funny thing is if in England, you ask a man in the street who the greatest living Darwinian is, he will… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a book that imagined where advances in the study of genetics might lead us. Holman was the first… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
We are compelled to drive toward total knowledge, right down to the levels of the neuron and the gene. When we have… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
None of my 22 grandchildren have genetics played. Three of my four boys were golf pros, but I think they all sort… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Genetics and beats? I feel like the drumbeat is a natural thing. Our heartbeat moves at a certain BPM. The drumbeat, being… — Q-Tip 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
As the popular trust in science fades - and many sociologists say that's happening today - people will develop a distrust of… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics.… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
My dad worked for Del Monte and then for Monsanto as one of the chief scientists on the Calgene Flavr Savr Tomato.… — Sanjay Rawal Copy Share Image
I find it impossible to experience either pride or shame over accidents of genetics in which I had no active part. I'm… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
The theory of evolution by natural selection is an ecological theory-founded on ecological observation by perhaps the greatest of all ecologists. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is something outrageous about such a huge body of evidence being put together, then being confirmed in all kinds of other… — Matthew Chapman Copy Share Image
“The tallest adults are the ones who had the most childhood and adolescent growth before puberty started; puberty typically tacks on a… — Arianne Cohen Copy Share Image
“There were three things sought by invaders who crossed oceans to discover America. Those were gold, gospel, glory. There are four things… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
I think it's easy to forget just how massive the muscles in the legs are, and how much testosterone is released in… — Daniel Cudmore Copy Share Image
Among the innumerable Footsteps of Divine Providence to be found in the Works of Nature, there is a very remarkable one to… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
The fact is that humans have been shaping the genetics of what they eat for thousands of years. Genetic engineering simply speeds… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
