Biology Quote by Colin Blakemore

No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why…

— James D. Watson

No one really has the guts to say it, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why…

— Gregory Stock

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…

— John Dupre

It is difficult to imagine a greater imposition than adding genes to future generations that changes the nature of future people.

— Ian Wilmut

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

Genes are mysterious things, still unpredictable after all of our research, flecks of humanity that can destroy lives but, just as often, can teach…

— Monica Hesse

Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as well as…

— Thomas Hunt Morgan

The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress.

— Isaac Asimov

Genes are not about inevitabilities; they're about potentials and vulnerabilities.

— Robert Sapolsky

Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.

— Robert M. Sapolsky

I know that the human condition will be radically changed through technical means. Much of this change will be painful, monstrous and horrible. Most…

— Bruce Sterling

“Thus, for our purposes, genes aren’t about inevitability. Instead they’re about context-dependent tendencies, propensities, potentials, and vulnerabilities. All embedded in the fabric of the…

— Robert M. Sapolsky