Genetics Quotes

• We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, Science, Survival

  1976 The Selfish Gene, ch.2.

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• Your genetics load the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger.

  Mehmet Oz

  Gun, Lifestyle, Triggers

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• The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

  Alvin Toffler

  Science, Talking, Together

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• Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.

  John Maynard Smith

  Generations, Information

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• All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.

  Francis Collins

  Gun, Environment, Illness

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• The secret to genius is not genetics but daily practice married with relentless perseverance.

  Robin Sharma

  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

  Twitter post from Dec 15, 2016

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• Health is a function of three things. 1. Luck 2. Genetics and 3. Choices in your lifestyle.

  Bill Walton

  Choices, Luck, Three

  Source: blitzweekly.com

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• Yes, there's genetics. Yes, there are chromosomes. Yes, there's biology. Yes, there are environment, sociology, parenting, economics, class, and all of that. But there is something else, as well.

  James Hillman

  Class, Environment, Biology

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.

  Ben Harper

  Self, Play, Roles

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• The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.

  Alvin Toffler

  Together, Next, Computer

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• With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.

  Walter Lang

  People, Realizing, Modern

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• We all know interspecies romance is weird.

  Tim Burton

  Romance, Biology, Weirdness

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• I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.

  Brad Pitt

  Hate, People, People You Hate

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• In this generation, along with the dominating traits, the recessive ones also reappear, their individuality fully revealed, and they do so in the decisively expressed average proportion of 3:1, so that among each four plants of this generation three receive the dominating and one the recessive characteristic.

  Gregor Mendel

  Science, Average, Individuality

  "Experiments on Plant Hybrids" (1865)

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• They say your genetics are going to set your direction regardless of what happens, but I think there's more to it than that.

  Charles Koch

  Thinking, Happens

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Eating disorders are like a gun that's formed by genetics, loaded by a culture and family ideals, and triggered by unbearable distress.

  Aimee Liu

  Gun, Anorexia, Eating Disorder

  Aimee Liu (2011). “Restoring Our Bodies, Reclaiming Our Lives: Guidance and Reflections on Recovery from Eating Disorders”, p.4, Shambhala Publications

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• The science of genetics is in a transition period, becoming an exact science just as the chemistry in the times of Lavoisier, who made the balance an indispensable implement in chemical research.

  Wilhelm Johannsen

  Science, Balance, Transition

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• Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.

  Steven Pinker

  Mind, Today, Phobia

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• It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection.

  Maurice Wilkins

  Life, Science, Growth

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• What has happened is that genetics has become a branch of information technology. It is pure information. It's digital information. It's precisely the kind of information that can be translated digit for digit, byte for byte, into any other kind of information and then translated back again. This is a major revolution. I suppose it's probably "the" major revolution in the whole history of our understanding of ourselves. It's something would have boggled the mind of Darwin, and Darwin would have loved it, I'm absolutely sure.

  Richard Dawkins

  Technology, Understanding, Mind

  "Life: A gene-centric view". Craig Venter and Richard Dawkins: A Conversation in Munich, www.edge.org. January 23, 2008.

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• The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan and their followers. Haldane, Wright, and Fisher are the pioneers of population genetics whose main research equipment was paper and ink rather than microscopes, experimental fields, Drosophila bottles, or mouse cages. Theirs is theoretical biology at its best, and it has provided a guiding light for rigorous quantitative experimentation and observation.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Science, Light, Ink

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• We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.

  Olympia Snowe

  Progress, Fields, Needs

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• I work out like a maniac and I spray tan a lot. Genetics were kind, but I work very hard.

  Anna Paquin

  Work Out, Kind, Maniacs

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• I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and not after most of them were convinced that evolution had occurred.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Science, Views, Would Be

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• My experiments with single traits all lead to the same result: that from the seeds of hybrids, plants are obtained half of which in turn carry the hybrid trait (Aa), the other half, however, receive the parental traits A and a in equal amounts. Thus, on the average, among four plants two have the hybrid trait Aa, one the parental trait A, and the other the parental trait a. Therefore, 2Aa+ A +a or A + 2Aa + a is the empirical simple series for two differing traits.

  Gregor Mendel

  Science, Simple, Average

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