Alphabet soup Quote by Siddhartha Mukherjee

“A four-letter alphabet called DNA.”

— Matt Ridley

“Genes are biochemical recipes written in a four-letter alphabet called DNA.”

— Matt Ridley

DNA is an abbreviation for deoxyribonucleicantidisestablishmentarianism, a complex string of syllables.

— Dave Barry

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

— Bryan Sykes

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

— Bill Nye

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

— Caite Dolan-Leach

Textbooks describe DNA as a blueprint for a body. It's better seen as a recipe for making a body, because it is irreversible. But…

— Richard Dawkins

“Introns are not the exception in human genes; they are the rule. Human introns are often enormous-spanning several hundreds of thousands of bases of…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“DNA is static, but proteins are dynamic.”

— David B. Agus

All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule.

— Lewis Thomas

“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

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

— Kenneth R. Miller