Genes Quotes

475 Genes quotes by 363 unique authors

Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our… — Orson Scott Card
So you're her brother? Says Linn. I guess we know who got the good genes. — Veronica Roth
Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all slaves to gravity… — Walter Mosley
We were his disposable things. Brought to him like cattle. Stripped of what made us sisters or daughters or children. There was nothing that he… — Lauren DeStefano
Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence â€” the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under… — Jon Krakauer
Gene told me the next day that I got it wrong. But he was not in a taxi, after an evening of total sensory overload,… — Graeme Simsion
I just wanted to thank you' he says, his voice low. 'A group of scientists told you that my genes were damaged, that there was… — Veronica Roth
I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here. — Bill Watterson
There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and psyche. We eventually… — Don DeLillo
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die, because they are never going to… — Richard Dawkins
He [Gene Kelly] once told me dancing was a man's game, as much of a sport as baseball itself. And he made us believe that.… — Liza Minnelli
... For Dawkins, evolution is a battle among genes, each seeking to make more copies of itself. Bodies are merely the places where genes aggregate… — Stephen Jay Gould
As for the presence of large NGF [nerve growth factor] sources in snake venom and male genital organs, they may be conceived as instances of… — Rita Levi-Montalcini
In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to characterize… — E. O. Wilson
The neutral zone of selective advantage in the neighbourhood of zero is thus so narrow that changes in the environment, and in the genetic constitution… — Ronald Fisher
A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits. — Dan Buettner
Though women are no longer barred from university laboratories and scientific societies, the idea that they are innately less suited to mathematical science is deeply… — Margaret Wertheim
Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are not definite products… — Gary Wolf
Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give… — Jack Horner
We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000. — Iain McGilchrist

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