Science Quote by Richard Dawkins

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

— Project Itoh

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

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“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

“The genome that we decipher in this generation is but a snapshot of an ever-changing document. There is no definitive edition.”

— Matt Ridley

“It’s not that I was categorically opposed to the idea of scientists and physicians using gene editing to introduce heritable changes into the human…

— Jennifer A. Doudna

“We're not very good as a species at looking into the future. It's much easier to look back at the past. We can edit…

— Peter James

“The letters of our DNA signify our origins, even if they can’t inscribe our futures.”

— Caite Dolan-Leach

“Yet why should individuals care about this evolutionary calculus? Why would any sane person lower his or her standard of living just to multiply…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

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

“evolution is blind to the future”

— Richard Dawkins

“in the not-so-distant future we might again have to contend with non-sapiens humans.”

— Yuval Noah Harari