Dna Quotes

• The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.

  Lewis Thomas

  Real, Science, Errors

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA.

  Spencer Wells

  Book, Written, History Books

  Spencer Wells (2012). “The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey”, p.195, Random House

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• If you can write DNA, you're no longer limited to 'what is' but to what you could make.

  Drew Endy

  Writing, Ifs

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• There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.

  Carlos Santana

  Light, Divinity

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• DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

  Bill Gates

  Computer, Biology, Program

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The road ahead”

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• There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Typical, Molecules

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• .....there are approximately 125 billion miles of DNA in a human body -- your personal DNA is long enough to wrap around the earth 5 million times.

  Jeremy Narby

  Long, Body, Earth

  Jeremy Narby (1999). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.73, Penguin

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• The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

  Dave Barry

  Birthday, Sex, Eye

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.146, Ballantine Books

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• When you're born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God's terms.

  Bill McCartney

  Born Again, Ability, Term

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• And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.

  Salvador Dali

  God, Real, Science

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• In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

  Carl Sagan

  Change, Learning, Humility

  Keynote address at CSICOP conference in 1987. "Do Science and the Bible Conflict?" Book by Judson Poling, p. 30, 2003.

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• Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.

  David R. Brower

  Dream, Cancer, Men

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• That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

  Paul Berg

  Technology, Receiving, Tools

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• The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its chemical identification by Avery (confirmed by Hershey), and the elucidation by Watson and Crick of the structural basis of its replicative invariance, are without any doubt the most important discoveries ever made in biology. To this must be added the theory of natural selection, whose certainty and full significance were established only by those later theories.

  Jacques Monod

  Science, Discovery, Doubt

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• Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.

  Paul Berg

  Moving, Profound, Natural

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  The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Iron, Apples

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.255, Ballantine Books

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• Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record, the study of DNA provides the strongest possible proof of our relatedness to all other living things.

  Francis Collins

  Doubt, Records, Fossils

  "Collins: Why This Scientist Believes in God" by Francis Collins, edition.cnn.com. April 06, 2007.

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• I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-hour ago, and nothing will make me happier than to replicate the DNA of my amazing husband. I'm optimistic.

  Karen Duffy

  Morning, Husband, Optimistic

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Understanding, Want, Cases

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• What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Technology, Needs, Bypass

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• It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid - usually by DNA, although certain small viruses use RNA as their genetic material.

  Francis Crick

  Rna, Viruses, Information

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• There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Eggs, Two, Cloning

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• I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Children, Responsibility

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• I will not believe that if I do something then I have to follow a certain path because it was written for normal people. People who aren’t special. People who don’t have tiger blood and Adonis DNA.

  Charlie Sheen

  Believe, Winning, Blood

  "Sheen demands 50 percent raise for ‘Two and a Half Men’" by Seamus McGraw, www.today.com.

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• So that's when I saw the DNA model for the first time, in the Cavendish, and that's when I saw that this was it. And in a flash you just knew that this was very fundamental.

  Sydney Brenner

  Fundamentals, Saws, Firsts

  Sydney Brenner (2001). “A life in science”

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