Quote by Richard Dawkins

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

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“it's in the genes”

— Lois Denny

“Thus, for our purposes, genes aren’t about inevitability. Instead they’re about context-dependent tendencies, propensities, potentials, and vulnerabilities. All embedded in the fabric of the…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“A gene is defined as any portion of chromosomal material that potentially lasts for enough generations to serve as a unit of natural selection.”

— Richard Dawkins

“In other words, the more genomically complex the organism, the larger the percentage of the genome devoted to gene regulation by the environment.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“DNA is the messenger which illuminates that connection,handed down from generation to generation,carried,literally,in the bodies of my ancestors.”

— Bryan Sykes

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

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

The gene as the basis of life.

— Hermann Joseph Muller

“biological corollary to a meme is, of course, a gene, a unit of heredity transmitted from an organism to its offspring.”

— David DiSalvo

“the popular conception of the gene as a simple causal agent is not valid. The idea that there is a gene for adventurousness, heart…

— Eva Jablonka

“I speculate that we shall come to accept the more radical idea that each one of our genes is a symbiotic unit. We are…

— Richard Dawkins

“The power of your ancestors and the magic of the cosmos is in your DNA”

— Jan Porter