Genes Quotes

475 Genes quotes by 363 unique authors

Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather than… — Mark Pagel
There are many ways in which genes influence the brain. — Sebastian Seung
Imagine that: If you could change one of the genes in an experiment, an aging gene, maybe you could slow down aging and extend lifespan. — Cynthia Kenyon
The first generation of biotech physically cut and pasted from one organism to another. You learned that taxol helped cure cancer, then you found the… — Steve Jurvetson
It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics. — Nicholas A. Christakis
Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for us to begin to think… — Nicholas A. Christakis
We will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more immediately interest us lies between… — Nicholas A. Christakis
With DNA, you have to be able to tell which genes are turned on or off. Current DNA sequencing cannot do that. The next generation… — Elon Musk
With worms you can just change genes at random and see if you can find a mutant that does what you want it to do. — Cynthia Kenyon
I definitely got my philanthropic genes from my mom and dad. They taught me from a very early age to always lend a helping hand… — Rebecca Gayheart
Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is in my genes. — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist. — Winona Ryder
My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down. — Martin Parr
I was very skinny, but that was just my natural build. I always ate sensibly - being thin was in my genes. — Twiggy
I would like to be known as one of the best actors in the world because that is something that I would have earned. And… — Randeep Hooda
To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is… — Scott Stossel
Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs. — Richard Dawkins
An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet… — Richard Dawkins
The passengers in our microbiome contain at least four million genes, and they work constantly on our behalf: they manufacture vitamins and patrol our guts… — Michael Specter
You could double the number of synaptic connections in a very simple neurocircuit as a result of experience and learning. The reason for that was… — Eric Kandel

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