Genes Quotes - Page 19

• Specific units - such as memes are intended to represent have meaning when there is essential discontinuity between categories. Such convenient discontinuities are found in atoms, elementary particles, genes, and DNA.

  Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

  Dna, Essentials, Atoms

  Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Marcus W. Feldman (1981). “Cultural Transmission and Evolution: A Quantitative Approach”, p.70, Princeton University Press

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• Food is medicine. We can actually change our gene expressions with the foods we eat.

  David Perlmutter

  Expression, Medicine

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• And I tell you one thing, if the primates that we came from, had know that someday politicians would come out of the gene pool, they would have stayed up in the trees and written evolution off as a bad idea.

  John Sheridan

  Ideas, Tree, Evolution

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• We South Asians have sycophancy in our genes!

  Cyrus Broacha

  South

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• Bill Clinton, talking about the need to financially empower wives and mothers in regressive countries, once remarked that women have 'the responsibility gene.' No one has that gene more markedly than his wife.

  Tina Brown

  Mother, Country, Responsibility

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• It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Blessing, Politics

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• A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is.

  Dave Barry

  Literature, Type, Dominant

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• The newborn infant is now seen to be wired with awesome precision... This marvelous robot will be launched into the world under the care of its parents... But to what extent does the wiring of the neurons, so undeniably encoded in the genes, preordain the directions that social development will follow?

  E. O. Wilson

  Parent, Robots, Doe

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• As an evolutionary biologist, I have learned over the years that most people do not want to see themselves as lumbering robots programmed to ensure the survival of their genes. I don't think they will want to see themselves as digital computers either. To be told by someone with impeccable scientific credentials that they are nothing of the kind can only be pleasing.

  John Maynard Smith

  Thinking, Years, People

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• Hurry up Gene, I got a date tonight.

  Walter Hagen

  Golf, Tonight

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• My dad is an ambassador. My brother is a diplomat. I doubt that I could be doing anything else other than being a diplomat if I weren't in showbiz. It's in the genes!

  Woody Milintachinda

  Brother, Dad, Doubt

  Source: travel.cnn.com

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• When it comes to taking genes from viruses and bacteria and putting them into plants, people say 'Yuck! Why would scientists do that?' Because sometimes it is the safest, cheapest and most effective technology to advance sustainable agriculture and enhance food security.

  Pamela Ronald

  Technology, Agriculture, People

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• The purposiveness of all vital processes, the strategy of the genes and the power of the exploratory drive in animal and man, all seem to indicate that the pull of the future is as real as the pressure of the past.

  Arthur Koestler

  Real, Animal, Past

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• Human beings function better if they are deceived by their genes into thinking that there is a disinterested objective morality binding upon them, which all should obey.

  E. O. Wilson

  Thinking, Morality, Function

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• What can one say about Michael Jackson? He is one of the world's most acclaimed entertainers, an innovative and exciting songwriter whose dancing seems to defy gravity and has been heralded by the likes of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly.
  His public is perhaps unaware of the extent of his dedication to his craft. Restless, seldom satisfied, he is a perfectionist who is constantly challenging himself. To many people Michael Jackson seems an elusive personality, but to those who work with him, he is not. This talented artist is a sensitive man, warm, funny, and full of insight.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Men, Dedication, Artist

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• There is one thing that humans strive for with every cell, every gene, every nerve fiber of our beings. ... More than Mallomars, more than hot sex, we want to belong.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Sex, Cells, Groups

  Cynthia Heimel (2004). “Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye”

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• Eternal life does not violate the laws of physics. After all, we only die because of one word: "error." The longer we live, the more errors there are that are made by our bodies when they read our genes. That means cells get sluggish. The body doesn't function as well as it could, which is why the skin ages. Then organs eventually fail, so that's why we die.

  Michio Kaku

  Mean, Errors, Cells

  "'Eternal Life Does Not Violate the Laws of Physics'". Interview with Philip Bethge and Rafaela von Bredow, www.spiegel.de. September 28, 2012.

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• You start by copying other people's paintings or music or whatever. You get all of those skills before you branch out. Really creative people have a fantastic ability to copy things and then combine them in new ways. And whether we're talking about genes or memes, recombination is the real heart of creativity.

  Susan Blackmore

  Real, Heart, Creativity

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• There's a belief that wherever your Ancestors took shape from the sticks and stones that formed them, that's home. Ancestors from the coast leave their mark, Ancestors from the mountains, from the desert, they all leave their mark on the genes. When you come home, the genes rejoice.

  Kate Wilhelm

  Home, Roots, Mountain

  Kate Wilhelm (2000). “No Defense”, Don Mills, Ont. : MIRA Books

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• every one of us possesses a gene predisposing us toward rivalry, competition, and fits of envy with any past, present, or future siblings.

  Linda Sunshine

  Sibling, Past, Envy

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• Astronomy is so easy to love. ... Fairly or not, physics is associated with nuclear bombs and nuclear waste, chemistry with pesticides, biology with Frankenfood and designer-gene superbabies. But astronomers are like responsible ecotourists, squinting at the scenery through high-quality optical devices, taking nothing but images that may be computer-enhanced for public distribution, leaving nothing but a few Land Rover footprints on faraway Martian soil, and OK, OK, maybe the Land Rover, too.

  Natalie Angier

  Science, Land, Squinting

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• I turned against the left wing because they don't like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.

  James D. Watson

  Wings, Evil, Want

  "James Watson: What I've Learned" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. October 19, 2007.

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• Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live.

  Angelina Jolie

  Country, Cancer, Mean

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• Also, I think having that comic gene kind of makes you look at things in a different way. If you take yourself so seriously, eventually you end up one of those people having a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on their lives. You see them drawing the curtains and they don't even realize that they've kind of drifted off somewhere.

  Jamie Foxx

  Thinking, Drawing, People

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

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• I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.

  Maeve Binchy

  Thinking, Hands

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