Change Quote by Siddharta Mukherjee

The more details we learn about the chemical basis of life and the intricacy of the genetic code, the more unbelievable the standard historical…

— Thomas Nagel

“DNA directs the construction of strings of chemicals; those chemicals influence the configuration of the whole organism; that configuration influences how likely it is…

— Bill Nye

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

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Nature ended up with the deoxyribonucleic acid molecule, DNA.”

— Bill Nye

“A microscopic egg had failed to divide in time due to a failure somewhere along a chain of chemical events, a tiny disturbance in…

— Ian McEwan

The gene as the basis of life.

— Hermann Joseph Muller

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

— Bryan Sykes

“DNA was the chemical material on which hereditary information was recorded, while a gene was one unit of that nearly infinite amount of hereditary…

— Koji Suzuki

“Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers—passageways—for genes.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Today we are even manipulating the DNA that makes us possible in the first place—a case of evolution evolving new ways to evolve.”

— Chip Walter

“genes might control the possibilities, but epigenetics determines our destiny.”

— A.G. Riddle

Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for us to begin to…

— Nicholas A. Christakis