Biology Quote by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

— Richard Dawkins

“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

“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

“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

“evolution is about reproduction, passing on copies of genes.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Realize this, though. Half my genes run through your body, and my selfish genome is heavily evolutionarily pre-programmed to look out for its copies.…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“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

“To be such a complicated, mysterious piece of biological machinery, and more amazing still, to have the capacity to analyze that machinery! That is…

— Veronica Roth

“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

“There is a Divine Providence operating over and above the materialistic happenings of biological evolution.”

— John C. Eccles

“With only a little imagination we can see the gene as sitting at the centre of a radiating web of extended phenotypic power.”

— Richard Dawkins

“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