Cases Quote by Edward Lawrie Tatum

We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.

— Walter Gilbert

The regulation of genes is often more interesting than the genes themselves, and it's the environment that regulates genes.

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Genes do not determine disease on their own. Genes function only by being activated, or “expressed,” and nutrition plays a critical role in determining…

— T. Colin Campbell

“The gene provides an organizing principle for modern biology—and it tantalizes us with the prospect of controlling our bodies and fates.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

The question is not whether but how do the actions of a given gene influence some interesting aspect of behavior.

— Jeffrey C. Hall

[G]enes make enzymes, and enzymes control the rates of chemical processes. Genes do not make "novelty seeking" or any other complex and overt behavior.…

— Stephen Jay Gould

There are many ways in which genes influence the brain.

— Sebastian Seung

What mechanism can it be that results in the production of homologous organs, the same 'patterns', in spite of their not being controlled by…

— Gavin de Beer

“gene (information -> encodes protein (form) -> enables function”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its chemical identification…

— Jacques Monod

“In 1957, Pardee, Monod, and Jacob discovered that the lactose operon was controlled by a single master switch-a protein eventually called the repressor. The…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

A key issue in developmental biology at that time was the problem of how cells underwent differentiation, with most workers concentrating on explanations in…

— Paul Nurse