Genes Quotes

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If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on… — David Attenborough
On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces… — A. S. Byatt
Character, I am sure, lies in the genes. — Taylor Caldwell
God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist… — Orson Scott Card
I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, 'Ah yes,… — Jackie Chan
From a scientist's perspective, to understand everything that you need to know about human beings, you only have to tinker with all the mechanical parts… — Deepak Chopra
My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I think you can write very good comedy without a partner, but what I love about it, working with a partner, is that you get… — John Cleese
I think it's the most responsible thing you can do, to have kids. It's not something to be taken lightly. I don't have that gene… — George Clooney
I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse. — Robin Cousins
Of course it is a very simple matter to identify genes which might modify intelligence or memory and start thinking about whether you want to… — Robert Winston
I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When she giggles I can hear… — Robert Fulghum
Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn't… — Ace Frehley
The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its chemical identification by… — Jacques Monod
There is nothing to learn about love. Everything is already there, in our genes, in our nature. We don't have to learn anything except what… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the… — Lewis Thomas
We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation.… — Richard Dawkins
Natural selection based on the differential multiplication of variant types cannot exist before there is material capable of replicating itself and its own variations, that… — Hermann Joseph Muller
The problem [with genetic research] is, we're just starting down this path, feeling our way in the dark. We have a small lantern in the… — Francis Collins
We are compelled to drive toward total knowledge, right down to the levels of the neuron and the gene. When we have progressed enough to… — E. O. Wilson

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