Dna Quotes - Page 5

• By looking at the details of the DNA, it is possible to chart the flow of your ancestry from your ultimate grandmother to more modern times.

  Bryan Sykes

  Grandmother, Details, Flow

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• Theres no environment I can think of that would have remained constant enough to preserve dinosaur DNA.

  Hendrik Poinar

  Thinking, Dinosaurs, Environment

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• I have to love the DNA of the brand fundamentally. I need to be able to fuse my personality with theirs. That's what I've done with Adidas, Swatch, and in a different way with Moschino. I really have to feel fused with it.

  Jeremy Scott

  Personality, Able, Way

  Source: www.elle.com

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• We have come a long way on that old molecule DNA.

  Lewis Thomas

  Long, Molecules, Way

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• The military said we'll be able to confirm Saddam is dead with DNA testing. Apparently we have a sample of his DNA. So Monica Lewinsky is working for the CIA?

  Jay Leno

  Military, Able, Said

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• It's in your DNA to be a Filipino; how can you just turn your back on it?

  Lea Salonga

  Filipino, Turns

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• A war is coming, a battle that will stretch from the prehistoric forests of the ancient past to the cutting-edge research labs of today, all to reveal a true mystery buried deep within our DNA, a mystery that will leave readers changed forever .

  James Rollins

  War, Cutting, Past

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• My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.

  David Oyelowo

  Dog, Brother, Children

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• Hundreds of scientists from around the world are gathering in Washington, D.C. for what some say could be a historic meeting. They are attending an international summit to debate one of the most controversial subjects in modern science , editing human DNA.

  Linda Wertheimer

  Editing, World, Gathering

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The choices and decisions we make in terms of how we use the land ultimately affect our very DNA. Environmental issues are life issues.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Decisions We Make, Land, Issues

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• I kind of grew up with hip hop and of course being from Detroit I'm a Motown man. Music is in our blood. When you're from Detroit, music is in your DNA.

  Eric Thomas

  Men, Blood, Hip Hop

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• Science fiction went through a period that was mostly object-oriented or inventions for distant galaxies.But when we cracked the genetic DNA code, opened the big Pandora's box, and it really did become possible to produce chimeras, my ears shot up.

  Margaret Atwood

  Ears, Pandora's Box, Fiction

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• With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.

  Kamala Harris

  People, Guilty, Advent

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• Mitochondrial DNA, which is a sort of abridged version of DNA, is passed directly from mother to child, so it's something that can be looked at to trace matrilineal descent.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Mother, Children, Descent

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

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• Antigravity, teleportation, time travel, energetic DNA evolution and consciousness transformation could create a world few of us ever even dreamed of.

  David Wilcock

  World, Evolution, Transformation

  David Wilcock (2013). “The Synchronicity Key: The Hidden Intelligence Guiding the Universe and You”, p.26, Penguin

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• Granted, we may try to help our own family members because they share our DNA. Or help someone else in expectation that they will help us later. But when you look at what we admire as the most generous manifestations of altruism, they are not based on kin selection or reciprocity. An extreme example might be Oskar Schindler risking his life to save more than a thousand Jews from the gas chambers. That's the opposite of saving his genes.

  Richard Dawkins

  Opposites, Expectations, Trying

  Source: inters.org

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• A moral principle in genetic testing is that it should always be done with the consent of the individual. No one wants someone snooping into his DNA.

  Arthur Caplan

  Principles, Done, Want

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• I think there's a lot that we remember almost chemically, through our DNA.

  Sharon Cameron

  Thinking, Remember

  Source: bookpage.com

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• You had to look at it as sales, as costumer service. Costumer's alwasy right, you know? Service with a smile. Those type of things so it's just kinda in me. In my DNA.

  Ab-Soul

  Looks, Type, Knows

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Some racists still reject the plain testimony written in the DNA that all the races are not only human but nearly indistinguishable. . . .

  Carl Sagan

  Life, Race, Racist

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.467, Ballantine Books

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• Russell Crowe is normally an actor who disappears so far into his characters you'd swear his DNA has been altered.

  David Edelstein

  Character, Actors, Disappear

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• Ve haf vays of making you gif us your DNA sample.

  Ilona Andrews

  Mascara, Sample, Tank Tops

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.54, Penguin

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• Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It's part of our DNA. That's why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look for the wider, bigger explanations for things.

  Adrian McKinty

  Animal, Patterns, Looks

  Adrian McKinty (2016). “The Sean Duffy Collection”, p.278, Serpent's Tail

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• I think that music, beats, melody, sound are a natural part of our DNA, our vibe. It’s just a part of the cycle of our lives, we’re born, we have eyes, we have music.

  Ziggy Marley

  Eye, Thinking, Sound

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• For hundreds of millions of years, Sex was the most efficient method for propagating information of dubious provenance: the origins of all those snippets of junk DNA are lost in the sands of reproductive history. Move aside, Sex: the world-wide Web has usurped your role.

  Seth Lloyd

  Sex, Moving, Years

  "Move Aside, Sex". The Edge Annual Question — 2010: "How Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?", www.edge.org. 2010.

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