Genes Quotes - Page 17

• Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Creativity, Angel, Blessing

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• If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Discovery, Years

  "An Oncologist Writes 'A Biography Of Cancer'". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 17, 2010.

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• Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.

  Robert Quine

  Records, Four, Five

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• My favorite film is Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power in The Razor's Edge.

  Terence Stamp

  Razors, Film, My Favorite

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.

  Robin Trower

  People, Jerry

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• I hope my fans remember my name is Gene Vincent and not Gene Autry.

  Gene Vincent

  Names, Fans, Remember

  "Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran: Rock'n'roll Revolutionaries". Book by John Collis, p. 181, 2004.

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• Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far.

  William Landay

  Simple, Important, Our Actions

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• As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification.

  Ernst Mayr

  Two, Population, Ignoring Facts

  Ernst Mayr (1988). “Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist”, Harvard University Press

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• I can't believe how blessed I am! I'm married to the most wonderful man, Gene Raymond, whom I'm deeply in love with, and, my career is right where I want it to be. I can live like this forever!

  Jeanette MacDonald

  Blessed, Believe, Men

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. 1943.

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• Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.

  J. Philippe Rushton

  Silly, Race, People

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• The first people I ever saw were probably Little Richard and Gene Vincent.

  Roy Wood

  People, Littles, Saws

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• The urgency to mate persists in all people as in all other mammals because of the evolutionary drive to continue the species, the inborn imperative for genes to reproduce and hormonal differences that evolved over millions of years.

  Lynn Margulis

  Years, Differences, People

  "A Woman's Worth: 1857 Letter Echoes Still; Some Basic Disputes Over Feminism Persist" by Patricia Cohen, www.nytimes.com. July 18, 1998.

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• If you inhale a millionth of a gram of plutonium, the surrounding cells receive a very, very high dose. Most die within that area, because it's an alpha emitter. The cells on the periphery remain viable. They mutate, and the regulatory genes are damaged. Years later, that person develops cancer. Now, that's true for radioactive iodine, that goes to the thyroid; cesium-137, that goes to the brain and muscles; strontium-90 goes to bone, causing bone cancer and leukemia.

  Helen Caldicott

  Cancer, Iodine, Cells

  "Prescription for Survival". A Debate on the Future of Nuclear Energy Between Anti-Coal Advocate George Monbiot and Anti-Nuclear Activist Dr. Helen Caldicott, www.democracynow.org. March 30, 2011.

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• If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the whales have fled, where rain forests are Indian memories never to return, and where human greed has plundered Mother Earth's innards and turned human genes into factories for profit. They will inherit a diminished planet where fresh water is increasingly rare, and where fresh air is a commodity... We live in a world that fears and hates its young. How else can one explain the bequest of such a foul, polluted, and hollow inheritance?

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Mother, Children, Memories

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• Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in the most poetic sense, see any virtue in the preservation of the cheetah species. They are not working to save the cheetah from extinction like some molecular World Wildlife Fund.

  Richard Dawkins

  Science, Wildlife, Vices

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• Except for the rare cases of plastid inheritance, the inheritance of all known cooacters can be sufficiently accounted for by the presence of genes in the chromosomes. In a word the cytoplasm may be ignored genetically.

  Thomas Hunt Morgan

  Science, Inheritance, May

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• Protein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene action.

  Francis Crick

  Science, Synthesis, Action

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• The people of Earth are emerging from an amnesiac-like state of collective shock, which has blocked the influx of spiritual knowledge into the human gene pool. And while it is quite obvious to many that “You create your reality”, the vast majority of humans still need to be awakened from the unconsciously controlled trance of powerlessness that they voluntarily took on.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Spiritual, Reality, People

  Barbara Marciniak (2010). “Path of Empowerment: New Pleiadian Wisdom for a World in Chaos”, p.22, New World Library

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• The commercialism of yoga, the commercialism of Ayurveda, the commercialism of guru-ism, is difficult. It's difficult because it confuses, it confuses the general populations as to what this is all about, but yet those of us who are trained within a certain tradition, who trained from the ancestral gene bank, so to speak, it is fine, it's not bothersome at all because we must live.

  Maya Tiwari

  Yoga, Ayurveda, Isms

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• It says that alcoholism is a disease, and that it gets passed on from generation to generation. I've told my kids about that: "You've got the crazy gene in you, guys. When it comes time to kick back with the buddies, drink a beer, and watch a football game, just realize that there will be a day when that thing turns on you. So you better keep an eye on it".

  Nikki Sixx

  Football, Crazy, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• All of the rocky and metallic material we stand on, the iron in our blood, the calcium in our teeth, the carbon in our genes were produced billions of years ago in the interior of a red giant star. We are made of star stuff.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Blood, Years

  Carl Sagan (1973). “Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective”, p.190, Cambridge University Press

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• What we want is another sample of life, which is not on our tree of life at all. All life that we've studied so far on Earth belongs to the same tree. We share genes with mushrooms and oak trees and fish and bacteria that live in volcanic vents and so on that it's all the same life descended from a common origin. What we want is a second tree of life. We want alien life, alien not necessarily in the sense of having come from space, but alien in the sense of belonging to a different tree altogether. That is what we're looking for, "life 2.0."

  Paul Davies

  Mushrooms, Space, Tree

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Most life on Earth is microbes. we've only just scratched the surface of the microbial realm. Probably less than .1% of microbes have been classified let alone cultured or had their genes sequenced, so really that microbial realm is a mystery.

  Paul Davies

  Earth, Mystery, Microbes

  Source: bigthink.com

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• What mechanism can it be that results in the production of homologous organs, the same 'patterns', in spite of their not being controlled by the same genes? I asked this question in 1938, and it has not been answered

  Gavin de Beer

  Patterns, Results, Spite

  Sir Gavin De Beer (1971). “Homology: An Unsolved Problem”

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• Psychiatrists look for twisted molecules and defective genes as the causes of schizophrenia, because schizophrenia is the name of a disease. If Christianity or Communism were called diseases, would they then look for the chemical and genetic "causes" of these "conditions"?

  Thomas Szasz

  Names, Molecules, Looks

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1973). “The second sin”, Anchor

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