Chasms Quote by Francis Collins

I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.

— Katherine Dunn

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us…

— Howard Gardner

“Long term exposure to abnormally high levels of lightning may trigger genetic adaptation processes in the human.”

— Steven Magee

If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“With only a little imagination we can see the gene as sitting at the centre of a radiating web of extended phenotypic power.”

— Richard Dawkins

“It is a well-known established fact throughout the many-dimensional worlds of the multiverse that most really great discoveries are owed to one brief moment…

— Terry Pratchett

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

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

The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

— Iain McGilchrist

If we didn't have genetic mutations, we wouldn't have us. You need error to open the door to the adjacent possible.

— Steven Johnson

Billions of dollars have been put into genetic research.

— Anne Wojcicki

The primary problem is not to provide the public with the knowledge of how far it is to the nearest star and what genes…

— Richard Lewontin