176 Quotes About Genetics

When we get down to basics, humans are just big bags of irradiated chemicals.

Illness might progressively vanish so might identity. Grief might be diminished, but so might tenderness. Traumas might be erased but so might history. Infirmities might disappear, but so might vulnerability. Chance would become mitigated, but so, inevitably, would choice.

An element of human invention transforms the natural into the cultural, rendering a higher life form an invention, an effect of the operation of biopower.

Human performance anomalies arising from extremely rare genetic variations will be exploited for strategic and tactical purposes.Capabilities for a New Millennium, U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency classified document, serial no. 55-89-144, p. 87.

Darwin’s own evidence was confined to variations WITHIN the KIND (Genesis 1:25), i.e. beak variations within Galapagos finches.

...We are long overdue for an update to the empirical scientific evidencethat, despite our racial differences, demonstrates humankind’s overarchingshared foundations as biological, cultural, and social beings. Awarenessof the fascinating research unfolding in the arena of nature–nurture and thehuman condition promises to be a step in that direction.

Anything with blood in it can probably go bad. Like meat. And it’s the blood that makes me worry. It carries things you don’t even know you got.

Race is a social construct. This does not mean that it is invalid or unimportant.

I was drawn to horses as if they were magnets. It was in my blood. I must have inherited from my grandfather a genetic proclivity toward the equine species. Perhaps there's a quirk in the DNA that makes horse people different from everyone else, that instantly divides humanity into those who love horses and the others, who simply don't know.