Genes Quotes - Page 21

• Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for us to begin to think about the inevitable genetic revolution in medicine that is going to allow us to advertently change our genes over centuries and even decades.

  Nicholas A. Christakis

  Thinking, Medicine, May

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• A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits.

  Dan Buettner

  Long, Healthy, Life Is

  "The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest". Book by Dan Buettner, www.amazon.com. January 1, 2008.

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• Running around in the grass near an unsecured structure and a bunch of trees is a good way of taking yourself out of the gene pool.

  Mira Grant

  Running, Tree, Way

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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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• 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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• Human beings are just gene machines.

  Richard Dawkins

  Machines, Humans, Human Beings

  "Faith and Reason" Interview, www.pbs.org.

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• Each of our cells is a living entity, and the main thing that influences them is our blood. If I open my eyes in the morning and my beautiful partner is in front of me, my perception causes a release of oxytocin, dopamine, growth hormones - all of which encourage the growth and health of my cells. But if I see a saber tooth tiger, I'm going to release stress hormones which change the cells to a protection mode. People need to realize that their thoughts are more primary than their genes, because the environment, which is influenced by our thoughts, controls the genes.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Beautiful, Morning, Stress

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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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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• I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents.... The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?

  John Steinbeck

  Believe, Eggs, Eden

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.66, Penguin

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• The self is the resultant of the interest of the genes.

  Eric Baum

  Science, Self, Mathematics

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• Whether you want it or not,
  your genes have a political past,
  your skin a political tone.
  your eyes a political color.
  ...
  you walk with political steps
  on political ground.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Eye, Past, Color

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• For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.

  Bill Nye

  Meaning Of Life, Life Is, Strive

  "BioLogos Interviews Bill Nye". Interview with Brad Kramer, biologos.org. February 4, 2015.

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• Each Fall the graves of my grandfathers call me, the brown
  hills and red gullies of mississippi send out their electric
  messages, galvanizing my genes.

  Etheridge Knight

  Fall, Grandfather, Red

  Etheridge Knight (1968). “Poems from prison”

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• Genes and family may determine the foundation of the house, but time and place determine its form.

  Jerome Kagan

  Family, House, Foundation

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• Every cell has certain knowledge. I think knowledge is contained within the genetics, even. I think scientists will find that. I don't think there's a gay gene, though. They may argue that down, but I don't think that, because that's a preference.

  RZA

  Gay, Thinking, Cells

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.

  Winona Ryder

  Photography, Father, Firsts

  Source: www.elle.com

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• My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene.

  Merry Clayton

  Mother, Children, Patient

  "Singers Merry Clayton & Darlene Love". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 07, 2014.

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• When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Art, World, Talent

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• An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version.

  Richard Dawkins

  Creativity, Ideas, Hijacking

  "The Very Best of Richard Dawkins: Quotes from a Devout Atheist". Book by Gordon Fisher, 2014.

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• I hope that other women can benefit from my experience. Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action... It is my hope that they, too, will be able to get gene tested, and that if they have a high risk they, too, will know that they have strong options. Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

  Angelina Jolie

  Strong, Cancer, Heart

  "My Medical Choice" by Angelina Jolie, www.nytimes.com. May 14, 2013.

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• Every great leader has a generosity gene.

  Jack Welch

  Generosity, Leader, Great Leader

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• We share half our genes with the banana. [After the announcement Jun 2000 that a working draft of the genetic sequence of humans had been completed by the Human Genome Project.]

  Robert May, Baron May of Oxford

  Science, Half, Bananas

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• What you see in living systems, and in genetic systems, is that the genes are already there, having arisen in the course of time, and when they are needed they become activated. If they had to be invented, the time would be too late.

  Jonas Salk

  Would Be, Too Late, Needed

  "Congressional Gold Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 16, 1991.

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