176 Quotes About Genetics

a history measured in centuries is the tiniest drop in the proverbial bucket of evolutionary time.

The afternoon sun warms napping cats, without cooking them.

The afternoon sun warms napping cats, without cooking them. (The Revolutionary Phenotype)

If we define "beauty" as having blue eyes (and only blue eyes), then we will, indeed, find a "gene for beauty." If we define "intelligence" as the performance on only one kind of test, then we will, indeed, find a "gene for intelligence." The genome is only a mirror for the breadth or narrowness of human imagination.

Adam & Eve have been degraded, reduplicated forever, photocopies of photocopies, mistakes copied, magnified, augmented.

A four-letter alphabet called DNA.

In evolutionary terms, that means we asked for it.

Man with all his noble qualities still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

If you think being descended from apes is bad for your self esteem, then get used to the idea that you are also descended from viruses.