Genes Quotes
475 quotes by 371 authors
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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
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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
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
— Taylor Caldwell
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse.
— Robin Cousins
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Genes Quotes
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