Genetic Quotes

317 quotes by 249 authors

As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes… — Diane Ackerman
Ten bajillion product ads notwithstanding, your looks are another thing that's basically genetic. — Martha Beck
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have… — Warren G. Bennis
Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I don't know, but… — Tony Blair
If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives? — Taylor Caldwell
It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic… — Noam Chomsky
In this century, not only has science changed the world faster than ever, but in new and different ways. Targeted drugs, genetic modification, artificial intelligence,… — Martin Rees
The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governments.… — E. O. Wilson
There is a wealth of information built into us ... tucked away in the genetic material in every one of our cells ... without some… — Alexander Shulgin
I'd have to say that, in general, models take themselves too seriously. Basically, they are genetic freaks who spend a couple of hours in hair… — Rebecca Romijn
It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material. — Francis Crick
It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There are more than… — Lewis Thomas
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
No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and… — E. O. Wilson
The fundamental problem in the origin of species is not the origin of differences in appearance, since these arise at the level of the geographical… — David Lack
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 may consequently state the fundamental theorem of Natural Selection in the form: The rate of increase in fitness of any organism at any time… — Ronald Fisher
Science is dangerous. There is no question but that poison gas, genetic engineering, and nuclear weapons and power stations are terrifying. It may be that… — Isaac Asimov
The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the… — E. O. Wilson
The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom. — Matt Ridley

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