Genetic Quotes
317 Genetic quotes by 241 unique authors
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I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.
— Michael Pollan
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Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now…
— Keith Henson
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..Since depression is a genetic biological illness, like diabetes, or low thyroid, it wasn't lack of character, laziness, or something I could "snap out of"-it…
— Peter McWilliams
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An excess of development can undermine the most ephemeral but distinctive tool a writer possesses: authorial voice. A writer's voice is as individual and marked…
— David Wright
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In the laboratory, we call this the six-degrees-of-separation-from-cancer rule: you can ask any biological question, no matter how seemingly distant-what makes the heart fail, or…
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Something about music urges us to engage with its larger context, beyond the piece of plastic it came on-it seems to be part of our…
— David Byrne
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In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.
— Jean Piaget
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I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by…
— Howard Gardner
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Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin.
— Lucille Roybal-Allard
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I see nothing wrong ethically with the idea of correcting single gene defects through genetic engineering. But I am concerned about any other kind of…
— Ian Wilmut
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Renegade scientists and totalitarian loonies are not the folks most likely to abuse genetic engineering. You and I are-not because we are bad but because…
— Arthur Caplan
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The time to talk about it [genetic engineering to improve a baby's genes] in schools and churches and magazines and debate societies is now. If…
— Arthur Caplan
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I'm your genetic jackhammer!
— Vince McMahon
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A deeply felt novel . . . The Story of Forgetting offers us both solace and illumination. Stefan Merrill Block possesses a singular mix of…
— Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
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The theory I'm putting forward here is that storytelling is a genetic characteristic in the sense that early human hunters who were able to organize…
— Daniel Quinn
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My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's really where I would have liked to have gone. But the genetic link was not…
— Anne M. Mulcahy
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We all have spiritual DNA; wisdom and truth are part of our genetic structure even if we don't always access it.
— Surya Das
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Another interesting field, which is my own, is cofactors, not only to the disease but also to transmission. I am still puzzled by the fact…
— Luc Montagnier
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A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his…
— B.F. Skinner
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I can't cook! It's genetic. My grandmother can't cook, my mother can't cook. I was raised to believe you eat because your body needs fuel…
— Jada Pinkett Smith
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Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.
— Allen Tate
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Every mutation through a new combination of genetic factors that provides the organism with a new opportunity for coming to terms with the conditions of…
— Konrad Lorenz
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There is no agreement on the extent to which metabolism could develop independently of a genetic material. In my opinion, there is no basis in…
— Leslie Orgel
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A breast cancer might turn out to have a close resemblance to a gastric cancer. And this kind of reorganization of cancer in terms of…
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
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W are all carrying the imprints of our most ancient ancestors. Not simply in the genetic code, but in the imprints of attention that are…
— Frederick Lenz
Who Wrote These Genetic Quotes
241 authors contributed a total of 317 Genetic Quotes, led by these top contributors: