Copying Quote by Francis Crick

It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate,…

— Maurice Wilkins

“Today we are even manipulating the DNA that makes us possible in the first place—a case of evolution evolving new ways to evolve.”

— Chip Walter

We still have very little understanding of how we can tweak form or shape at the genetic level. We certainly haven't unlocked those secrets.

— Mitchell Joachim

“Mutants are necessary to maintain the essence of our selves. Our genomes has negotiated a fragile balance between counterpoised forces, pairing strand with opposite…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

For example, both humans and chimps have a broken copy of a gene that in other mammals helps make vitamin C. ... It's hard…

— Michael Behe

“Our prototypical behavior has occurred. How was it influenced by events when the egg and sperm that formed that person joined, creating their genome—the…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Consider the fact that for 3.8 billion years, a period of time older than the Earth's mountains and rivers and oceans, every one of…

— Bill Bryson

So that's when I saw the DNA model for the first time, in the Cavendish, and that's when I saw that this was it.…

— Sydney Brenner

“This was the missing link in Darwin's Logic: reproductive incompatibility, ultimately derived from genetic incompatibility, drove the origin of novel species.”

— Siddharta Mukherjee

This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely near together…

— Francis Crick

“Mating has been programmed into our DNA. And that programming always influences our interaction with the opposite sex, whether we like to admit it…

— Oliver Markus Malloy

Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.

— Allen Tate