Taking Up Space Quote by Ian McDonald

.....there are approximately 125 billion miles of DNA in a human body -- your personal DNA is long enough to wrap around the earth…

— Jeremy Narby

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…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

We carry stores of DNA in our nuclei that may have come in, at one time or another, from the fusion of ancestral cells…

— Lewis Thomas

“At conception, we start as a single cell that contains all the DNA needed to build our body. The plan for that entire body…

— Neil Shubin

Nuclear DNA encodes all the proteins and enzymes that make you you, basically.

— Hendrik Poinar

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

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Our understanding of how DNA informs our health and development is advancing at an incredible pace.

— Anne Wojcicki

About 1.2% of the human genome is made up of genes, things that encode for proteins, the stuff that we consider us. There is…

— Carl Zimmer

“The length of all DNA in your body's cells is 74 billion kilometers (or 193,000 times the distance from the earth to the moon).”

— Caleb Scharf

“It is encrusted with history. Embedded within it are peculiar fragments of DNA-some derived from ancient viruses-that were inserted into the genome in the…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“We are just collections of DNA optimized for particular places and times.”

— Project Itoh

“Science has discovered that, like any work of literature, the human genome is a text in need of commentary, for what Eliot said of…

— Jonah Lehrer