Blood Quote by Spencer Wells Download Open image “Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.” — Spencer Wells ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blood Book Genes History History books Humans Language Written
Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable. — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
“why can we never talk about the blood. the blood of our ancestors. the blood of our history. the blood between our legs. – blood” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA. — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's terrifying the way molecular biology has become more and more jargon ridden. But I strongly believe that my book can be read by… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
It turns out that every person alive today can trace his or her ancestry back to Africa. Everyone's DNA tells a story of a… — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
We spent an enormous amount of time as hominids and as primates living as hunter-gatherers. That is the natural way for us to live,… — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
“Creativity is imagining something that isn't there and making it real.” — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back. — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
Imagine you're copying a very long document, and occasionally you'll put an A where there should be a C. And that mistake has been… — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
“The biggest revolution of the past 50,000 years of human history was not the advent of the Internet, the growth of the industrial age out of the seeds of the Enlightenment, or the development of modern methods of long-distance navigation. Rather, it was when a few people living in several locations around the world decided to stop gathering from the… — Spencer Wells Copy Share
If you go far enough back, your genome connects you with bacteria, butterflies, and barracuda - the great chain of being linked together through… — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
Many of the crises we see in the 21st century, I would argue, have their roots in the dawn of the Neolithic. — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
What if I told you every single person in America - every single person on Earth - is African? With a small scrape of… — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
Taken with the archaeological data, we can say that the old hypothesis of an invasion of people - not merely their language - from… — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA. — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth - it feels as if you're being injected with darkness. It's like black water as cold as ice settling in your body where your blood… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I have no intention of retiring. Even my blood sugar is better when I'm working. — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
What about you three, where are you going?" Even before Halt answered, Will knew what he was going to say. But that didn't make… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
I don't think you should ever say, 'This is the last time'. Music isn't like that. You'll be sitting there not wishing to get… — Roger Daltrey Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run… — Harbhajan Singh Copy Share Image
Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people, to fight one another. I do not feel happy for this victory of mine. On the contrary, I would be glad, brothers, if I had all of you standing here next to me, since… — Alexander the Great Copy Share