Genes Quotes - Page 22

• I did not mean to suggest that autism could be traced to Neanderthal genes. The point is that some genes that have been implicated in autism changed pretty significantly between the time Neanderthal line and human line split.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Mean, Autism, Neanderthals

  "Ask the Author Live: Elizabeth Kolbert on Neanderthals". The New Yorker interview, www.newyorker.com. August 12, 2011.

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• Can't argue with Gene Roddenberry. He was a pretty brilliant guy.

  Brent Spiner

  Guy, Arguing, Brilliant

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People who criticize The Selfish Gene like that often haven't read it. The selfish gene accounts for altruism toward kin and individuals who might be in a position to reciprocate your altruism.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, People, Might

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation.

  David Attenborough

  Animal, Watches, Generations

  "The Trials of Life". Documentary series, 1990.

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• I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, 'Ah yes, they good.' Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way.

  Jackie Chan

  People, One Day, Want

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• It is probably fair to estimate the frequency of a majority of mutations, in higher organisms, between one in ten thousand and one in a million per gene per generation.

  Francisco J. Ayala

  Majority, Mutation, Generations

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• Hillary Clinton has emphasized that she is afflicted with or possessed of the responsibility gene.

  Mark Shields

  Responsibility, Clinton, Possessed

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.

  Helen Dunmore

  Powerful, Stories, Longing

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• I'm prepared to concede that stupidity does not help survival. One must after all understand not to poke a tiger with a stick. But intelligence leads to curiosity, and curiosity has never been a quality that helps one pour his or her genes into the pool. The truth must lie somewhere between. Whatever the reason, it is clearly mediocrity, at best, that lives and breeds.

  Jack McDevitt

  Lying, Stupidity, Survival

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• Genes are little items that are found in every living thing except Sen. Alfonse D'Amato.

  Dave Barry

  Littles, Found, Living Things

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• Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis.

  Edwin Conklin

  Life, Science, Organization

  "Evolution by Association : A History of Symbiosis: A History of Symbiosis" by Edwin Grant Conklin, Oxford University Press, August 22, 1994.

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• Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the front, turn around, and look at the light from the screen reflected on the upturned faces of the members of the audience.

  Roger Ebert

  Beautiful, Light, Sight

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• Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of every one I have ever read, somehow transmuted and transformed into me just as my genes and the soul within me make me uniquely me, so I am the unique sum of the books I have read. I am my literary DNA.

  Susan Hill

  Book, Cutting, Unique

  FaceBook post by Susan Hill from Apr 01, 2013

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• I must confess, when I see anyone with an Obama 2012 bumper sticker, I recognize them as a threat to the gene pool.

  Allen West

  Pool, Bumper Sticker, Threat

  "Top 10 Allen West lines" by Mackenzie Weinger, www.politico.com. April 6, 2012.

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• Dogbert: Scientists have discovered the gene that makes some people love golf.
  Dilbert: How can they tell it's the golf gene?
  Dogbert: It's plaid and it lies.

  Scott Adams

  Lying, Golf, Science

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• I'm bald, blind and pale. I'm like a gigantic recessive gene.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Humor, Blind

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• I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes.

  Kate Walsh

  Lucky, Good Genes

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm lucky to have very good genes. My mother was so tiny she was almost bird-like, and my father was tall and lean. Both lived until their early 80s.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Mother, Father, Bird

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• Good Viking genes, being vegetarian and having rowdy dogs and kids definitely keep me in shape. Not eating meat gives me the energy I need to keep up with work, family and travel - I'm very active.

  Pamela Anderson

  Dog, Kids, Giving

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• I have that gene mutation too and it’s not something I would believe in for myself. I wouldn’t call it the brave choice. I actually think it’s the most fearful choice you can make when confronting anything with cancer. My belief is that cancer comes from inside you and so much of it has to do with the environment of your body. It’s the stress that will turn that gene on or not.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Stress, Cancer, Believe

  "Rippin’ & tearin’ & strippin’". Interview with Joey DiGuglielmo, www.washingtonblade.com. June 13, 2013.

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• An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he can do for his breed is to crawl off and die, and not pass on his defective genes.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Fighting, Animal, Spirit

  "The Pragmatics of Patriotism". Address at the U.S. Naval Academy, April 5, 1973.

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• A cancer is not simply a lung cancer. It doesn't simply have a certain kind of appearance under the microscope or a certain behavior, but it also has a set of changes in the genes or in the molecules that modify gene behavior that allows us to categorize cancers in ways that is very useful in thinking about new ways to control cancer by prevention and treatment.

  Harold E. Varmus

  Cancer, Thinking, Way

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I'm originally from Tampa and grew up on beach. I'm also naturally fair-skinned. The funny thing is, my parents are both pretty tan, but for some reason I didn't get those genes.

  Brittany Snow

  Beach, Funny Things, Parent

  "The Genius Way Brittany Snow Gets Tan Without Going in the Sun (and No, Not With Self-Tanner)". Interview with Julianne Carell, www.glamour.com. June 8, 2016.

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• Think about all of the families where the father is a doctor and the son is a doctor or generations of coal miners. Why did they go into that line of work? Because that's what they were taught. Or was it in their genes? It's not an either/or question. It's both. I was inclined in that way. I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up.

  Rosanne Cash

  Growing Up, Father, Son

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• We're taught to solely blame our luck-of-the-draw genes for our health issues, rather than our daily habits, dietary choices, and interplay with the environment that surrounds us.

  Kris Carr

  Issues, Choices, Luck

  "Love, Eat, Heal" by Kris Carr, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 22, 2012.

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