Dna Quotes - Page 12

• If one stretches out the DNA contained in the nucleus of a human cell, one obtains a two-yard-long thread that is only ten atoms wide. This thread is a billion times longer than its own width. Relatively speaking, it is as if your little finger stretched from Paris to Los Angeles.

  Jeremy Narby

  Cells, Two, Paris

  Jeremy Narby (1999). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.71, Penguin

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• You will find scientists who will tell you — and they deeply believe it — that we’re quantifiable. We are knowable. That if I can take a high enough resolution picture of all of you — not just your outsides, but your genes, your DNA, all the way down to your atoms — I can know everything about you and everything that you will be. There are people who believe this. And what this tells me is, no. No! All the way down, to the bottom of our thoughts, there’s just more mystery.

  Jad Abumrad

  Believe, People, Atoms

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• If we study history and anthropology we will find that all over the world the original people are Black people who migrated from Africa. This is confirmed by recent DNA studies. The only reason that we don't readily accept this is because we are indoctrinated to believe that Africa is the worst place that has ever been. If we had a more positive attitude about Africa we would run to it instead of running from it.

  Runoko Rashidi

  Running, Attitude, Believe

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• Passionate ideological opposition to race preferences does not seem to be part of the Bush DNA, and President Bush has been no exception to this rule . . . It is not the legitimate business of government in America to promote 'diversity.'

  Ward Connerly

  America, Race, Government

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• I was curious, given the swimming pools of booze I’ve guzzled over the years - not to mention all of the cocaine, morphine, sleeping pills, cough syrup, LSD, Rohypnol… there’s really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive. Maybe my DNA could say why.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Sleep, Swimming, Years

  "Ozzy Osbourne genome sequenced" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2010.

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• I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Family And Friends, I Love My Friends, My Friends

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• Every now and then, you find a book that feels like it was keyed to your DNA.

  Alexander Chee

  Book, Now And Then, Feels

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• We will hire someone with less experience, less education, and less expertise, than someone who has more of those things and has a rotten attitude. Because we can train people. We can teach people how to lead. We can teach people how to provide customer service. But we can't change their DNA.

  Herb Kelleher

  Attitude, People, Rotten

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• If I ever really felt depressed, I would just start putting on all my old records that I played as a kid, because the whole thing that really lifted me then still lifted me during those other times. It was good medicine for me, and it still does that for me when I put something on. Isn't it wonderful that we've got all that good medicine? I think it's got to be all part of our DNA, this mass communication through music. That's what it is. It's got to be, hasn't it? Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn't let me down.

  Jimmy Page

  Communication, Kids, Thinking

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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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• Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick.

  Francis Crick

  Stress, Believe, Structure

  "What Mad Pursuit". Book by Francis Crick, 1988.

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• It's not a great song unless it makes your DNA remember Eden and your spirit long for Home.

  Mark Lowry

  Song, Home, Eden

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• If you are wasting time and energy trying to be as much like everyone else as you can, you are throwing away something precious: your individuality. When you embrace your difference, your DNA, your look or heritage or religion or your unusual name, that’s when you start to shine.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Names, Differences, Shining

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• The information contained in an English sentence or computer software does not derive from the chemistry of the ink or the physics of magnetism, but from a source extrinsic to physics and chemistry altogether. Indeed, in both cases, the message transcends the properties of the medium. The information in DNA also transcends the properties of its material medium.

  Stephen C. Meyer

  Ink, Doe, Information

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• Family is not always the people with whom you share DNA. Sometimes, family is the person who fights the hardest for your happiness.

  Cassia Leo

  Tattoo, Fighting, People

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• I used to be pro-choice."..."I was once pro-choice and the thing that changed my mind was, I read my husband's biology books, medical books, and what I learned . . . At the moment of conception, a life starts. And this life has its own unique set of DNA, which contains a blueprint for the whole genetic makeup. The sex is determined. We know there's a life because it's growing and changing.

  Kathy Ireland

  Sex, Husband, Book

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• There are many ways of casting molecular spells using DNA. What we really want to do in the end is learn how to program self-assembly so that we can build anything.

  Paul W. K. Rothemund

  Technology, Self, Want

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• When the human body is put under exceptional strain, a range of dormant genes in the DNA are expressed and extraordinary physiological processes are activated.

  K. Anders Ericsson

  Work Ethic, Body, Ethics

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• You're not an African because you're born in Africa. You're an African because Africa is born in you. It's in your genes.... your DNA....your entire biological make up. Whether you like it or not, that's the way it is. However, if you were to embrace this truth with open arms....my, my, my....what a wonderful thing.

  Marimba Ani

  Arms, Way, Wonderful

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• We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what we are for. We are machines for propagating DNA, and the propagation of DNA is a self-sustaining process. It is every living object's sole reason for living.

  Richard Dawkins

  Life, Science, Self

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• There's no American playwright after 1945 who wasn't profoundly affected - who didn't have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams.

  John Guare

  Tennessee, Changed, Playwright

  "John Guare: Strangers in the Dark". Interview with Tana Wojczuk, www.guernicamag.com. March 19, 2012.

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• You're my brother." "Those words don't mean anything where we're concerned. We aren't human. Their rules don't apply to us. Stupid laws about what DNA can be mixed with what. Hypocritical, really, considering. We're already experiments.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Stupid, Mean

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “City of Lost Souls”, p.446, Simon and Schuster

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• It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach to grammar, pioneered by Chomsky, argues that this is only explicable if certain deep, universal features of this competence are innate characteristics of the human brain. Biologically speaking, this hypothesis of an inheritable capability to learn any language means that it must somehow be encoded in the DNA of our chromosomes. Should this hypothesis one day be verified, then lingusitics would become a branch of biology.

  Niels Kaj Jerne

  Children, Mean, Science

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• This is what you get, Maura, for using your DNA to make a baby.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Baby

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• The greatest wisdom is in simplicity. Love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness. It's not complex or elaborate. The real knowledge is free. It's encoded in your DNA. All you need is within you. Great teachers have said that from the beginning. Find your heart, and you will find your way.

  Carlos Barrios

  Teacher, Gratitude, Real

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