Quote by Matt Ridley

The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.

— Matt Ridley

“It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes.”

— Richard Dawkins

“New analyses of the human genome establish that human evolution has been recent, copious and regional.”

— Nicholas Wade

It's terrifying the way molecular biology has become more and more jargon ridden. But I strongly believe that my book can be read by…

— Matt Ridley

“The dirty little secret of genomics is that we still know next to nothing about how a genome translates into the particularities of a…

— Svante Pääbo

“have no doubt, this technology will — someday, somewhere — be used to change the genome of our own species in ways that are…

— Jennifer A. Doudna

“If one wished to speak provocatively, one could say that individuals created from such proofread genomes might be “more human” than anybody currently alive,…

— Nick Bostrom

Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.

— Kenneth R. Miller

A Machine to Make a Future is an insightful and creative contribution to the literature--both scholarly and journalistic--on contemporary genomics. By 'experimenting' with narrative…

— Nadia Abu El Haj

“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

“As I write this, organisms endowed with genomes are learning to change the heritable features of organisms endowed with genomes.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect's plan for a building…

— Iain McGilchrist