Quote by James Gleick Download Open image ““So in 1910 a Danish botanist, Wilhelm Johannsen, self-consciously invented the word gene.”” — James Gleick ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Genetic engineering was messy. To force a sequence of foreign DNA into a plant, you couldn’t just snip the desired gene from the bacteria… — Kenneth Eade Copy Share Image
“It was in the attempt to ascertain the interrelationships between species that experiments n genetics were first made. The words "evolution" and "origin of species" are now so intimately associated with the name of Darwin that we are apt to forger that the idea of common descent had been prominent in the mnds of naturalists before he wrote, and that,… — William Bateson Copy Share
“In 1905, still struggling for an alternative, Bateson coined a word of his own. Genetics, he called it: the study of heredity and variation-the… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“the written word is a recent invention that has left no trace in our genome and must be laboriously acquired throughout childhood and beyond.… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“As a known entity, DNA has been around longer than you might think. It was discovered as far back as 1869 by Johann Friedrich… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“It is the impulse of science to understand nature, and the impulse of technology to try to manipulate it. Recombinant DNA had pushed genetics from the realm of science into the realm of technology. Genes were not abstractions anymore. They could be liberated from the genomes of organisms where they had been trapped for millennia, shuttled between species, amplified, purified,… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share
It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
“Genes are biochemical recipes written in a four-letter alphabet called DNA.” — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“Sir Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, first coined the term “eugenics” in his 1883 book Human Faculty and Its Development.” — Elizabeth Letts Copy Share Image
“If I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist.” — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver's watch, that "wonderful kind of engine...a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal," they identified it… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
You know, entropy is associated thermodynamically, in systems involving heat, with disorder. And in an analogous way, information is associated with disorder, which seems… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“No one has even a definitive spelling for Cawdrey’s name (Cowdrey, Cawdry). But then, no one agreed on the spelling of most names: they… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Where, then, is any particular gene—say, the gene for long legs in humans? This is a little like asking where is Beethoven’s Piano Sonata… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Alphabetical order had to be invented to help people organize the first dictionaries. On the other hand, we may have reached a point where… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
A book is not necessarily made of paper. A book is not necessarily made to be read on a Kindle. A book is a… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“From this point of view, the laws of science represent data compression in action. A theoretical physicist acts like a very clever coding algorithm.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Children and scientists share an outlook on life. If I do this, what will happen? is both the motto of the child at play… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Your body moves always in the present, the dividing line between the past and the future, but your mind is more free. It can… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
People worry about Twitter. Twitter is banal. It's 140-character messages. By definition, you can hardly say anything profound. On the other hand, we communicate.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
