176 Quotes About Genetics

The human genome is a life written in a book where every word has been written before. A story endlessly rehearsed.

Read the book of life or a life in a book: it’s all epigraphs and anagrams.

Genes do not make you, any more than brain chemistry makes you hungry, food makes you breathe, breathing makes you die.

And so,' smiled the Witcher, 'I have no choice? I have to enter into a pact with you, a pact which should someday become the subject of a painting, and become a sorcerer? Give me a break. I know a little about the theory of heredity. My father, as I discovered with no little difficulty, was a wanderer, a churl, a troublemaker and a swashbuckler. My genes on the spear side may be dominant over the genes on the distaff side. The fact that I can swash a buckler pretty well seems to confirm that.

You're not supposed to interject feelings into science, but part of the reason it's so fascinating that we're 8 percent (or more) fossilized virus is that it's so creepy that we're 8 percent (or more) fossilized virus.

Genes aren’t designed to make us happy. They design us to makemore copies of themselves.

Thank God for good genes and cocoa butter!

It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.

What I am primarily is a neurogeneticist: I use genetics to study problems in neurobiology. The one problem I study primarily... understanding of the sense of touch.