Genes Quotes

475 Genes quotes by 363 unique authors

Nature designed with a random set of genes and circumstances in which we were born. To be happy, we have to accept it and make… — Chetan Bhagat
One of the problems, and it's one which is obviously going to get worse, is that all the people at the party are either the… — Douglas Adams
Do you realize that there is nothing in our genes that tells us when to die? There are genetic codes that tell us how to… — Jillian Michaels
We are survival machines â€“ robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me… — Richard Dawkins
He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with sociable… — Jonathan Franzen
If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the… — Robert J. Sawyer
The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes. — Helen Dunmore
What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave,… — Temple Grandin
What i'm trying to tell you," Min said, "is that im going to grow up to be one of those chubby old ladies. It's in… — Jennifer Crusie
Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But the… — Richard Dawkins
And of course I'm a chauvinist, but it isn't my fault." "It isn't?" "No, Jack was born first and I share his genes. I can't… — Christine Feehan
Basque and Celt. Criminals and barbarians. I didn't think there could be a more primitive pairing of genes. — Karen Marie Moning
Iâ€™m too young, too smart, and too good-looking to die. Yeah, and then some. The world needed him to improve the gene pool. Not to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
In all probability the Human Genome Project will, someday, find that I carry some recessive gene for optimism, because despite all my best efforts I… — Chuck Palahniuk
Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes don't think about… — Haruki Murakami
He kissed back, all the pages spread out around us like riddles waiting to be solved. Let them wait. Let my genes unravel, my hinges… — Lauren DeStefano
The kitten was six weeks old. It was enchanting, a delicate fairy-tale cat, whose Siamese genes showed in the shape of the face, ears, tail,… — Doris Lessing
Schwartz's research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives… — Susan Cain
...When I asked [my dad why the sky was blue] he said it was because God's a boy. If God were a girl, the sky… — Julie Anne Peters
We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor… — Carl Sagan

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