Genome Quotes
59 quotes by 42 authors
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By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.
— Barry Schuler
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As was predicted at the beginning of the Human Genome Project, getting the sequence will be the easy part as only technical issues are involved.…
— Sydney Brenner
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[Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all of science. I…
— Francis Collins
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The big idea we start with is: "How is the genome interpreted, and how are stable decisions that affect gene expression inherited from one cell…
— Shirley M. Tilghman
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Although life is a continuous process, fertilization is a critical landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new, genetically distinct human organism is thereby formed.... The…
— Ronan O'Rahilly
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We have learned nothing from the genome.
— Craig Venter
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The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. He can be worshipped in the cathedral or in the laboratory. His creation…
— Francis Collins
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Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
— Danny Hillis
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Living in your genome is the history of our species.
— Barry Schuler
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We’re still getting a lot of the popular conception that’s grounded in the one-way, causal image of the genome. The idea that the future of…
— John Dupre
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Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.
— Adam Savage
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Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made.
— Craig Venter
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The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.
— Matt Ridley
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Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make us the sort of creature…
— Elizabeth Kolbert
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One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management…
— Samuel Wilson
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We are here to celebrate the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome. Without a doubt, this is the most important, most…
— William J. Clinton
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A DNA sequence for the genome of bacteriophage ΦX174 of approximately 5,375 nucleotides has been determined using the rapid and simple 'plus and minus' method.…
— Frederick Sanger
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When burned on a CD, the human genome is smaller than Microsoft Office.
— Steve Jurvetson
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It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to…
— Samuel Wilson
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The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that…
— Thomas Cech
Who Wrote These Genome Quotes
42 authors contributed a total of 59 Genome Quotes, led by these top contributors: