Genes Quotes - Page 11

• I hope my fans remember my name is Gene Vincent and not Gene Autry.

  Gene Vincent

  Names, Fans, Remember

  "Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran: Rock'n'roll Revolutionaries". Book by John Collis, p. 181, 2004.

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• Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far.

  William Landay

  Simple, Important, Our Actions

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• As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification.

  Ernst Mayr

  Two, Population, Ignoring Facts

  Ernst Mayr (1988). “Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist”, Harvard University Press

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• Psychiatrists look for twisted molecules and defective genes as the causes of schizophrenia, because schizophrenia is the name of a disease. If Christianity or Communism were called diseases, would they then look for the chemical and genetic "causes" of these "conditions"?

  Thomas Szasz

  Names, Molecules, Looks

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1973). “The second sin”, Anchor

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• We can now determine, easily and relatively cheaply, the detailed chemical architecture of genes ; and we can trace the products of these genes ( enzymes and proteins ) as they influence the course of embryology . In so doing we have made the astounding discovery that all complex animal phyla - arthropods and vertebrates in particular - have retained, despite their half-billion years of evolutionary independence, an extensive set of common genetic blueprints for building bodies.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Animal, Discovery, Years

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Leonardo's Mountain Of Clams”, p.283, Random House

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• The genetic stage of a gene pool can be identified by the personality characteristics of the local God. Jehovah of Genesis is a low-level barbarian macho punk God. He boastfully claims to have created the heaven and the stars and the world, but provides no technical details or replicable blueprints. His preoccupations, whims, anxieties, jealousies, rules and hatred of women are primitive mammalian brain. His petty prides are primate.

  Timothy Leary

  Stars, Pride, Personality

  Timothy Leary (2009). “Evolutionary Agents”, p.41, Ronin Publishing

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• I'm wearing black leggings and a loose top festooned with a Menger sponge of empty pockets stitched out of smaller pockets and smaller still, almost down to the limits of visibility woven in freefall by hordes of tiny otaku spiders, I'm told, their genes programmed by an obsessive-compulsive sartorial topologist.

  Charles Stross

  Wearing Black, Pockets, Obsessive Compulsive

  Charles Stross (2010). “Glasshouse”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• Bill Clinton, talking about the need to financially empower wives and mothers in regressive countries, once remarked that women have 'the responsibility gene.' No one has that gene more markedly than his wife.

  Tina Brown

  Mother, Country, Responsibility

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• The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would not have morals or ethics without religion is extraordinary. Animals in nature seem to behave in moral ways without organized religion.

  Bill Nye

  Animal, Meaning Of Life, Way

  Interview with Brad Kramer, biologos.org. February 4, 2015.

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• It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Blessing, Politics

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• A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is.

  Dave Barry

  Literature, Type, Dominant

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• The newborn infant is now seen to be wired with awesome precision... This marvelous robot will be launched into the world under the care of its parents... But to what extent does the wiring of the neurons, so undeniably encoded in the genes, preordain the directions that social development will follow?

  E. O. Wilson

  Parent, Robots, Doe

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• As an evolutionary biologist, I have learned over the years that most people do not want to see themselves as lumbering robots programmed to ensure the survival of their genes. I don't think they will want to see themselves as digital computers either. To be told by someone with impeccable scientific credentials that they are nothing of the kind can only be pleasing.

  John Maynard Smith

  Thinking, Years, People

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• Hurry up Gene, I got a date tonight.

  Walter Hagen

  Golf, Tonight

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• My dad is an ambassador. My brother is a diplomat. I doubt that I could be doing anything else other than being a diplomat if I weren't in showbiz. It's in the genes!

  Woody Milintachinda

  Brother, Dad, Doubt

  Source: travel.cnn.com

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• When it comes to taking genes from viruses and bacteria and putting them into plants, people say 'Yuck! Why would scientists do that?' Because sometimes it is the safest, cheapest and most effective technology to advance sustainable agriculture and enhance food security.

  Pamela Ronald

  Technology, Agriculture, People

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• The purposiveness of all vital processes, the strategy of the genes and the power of the exploratory drive in animal and man, all seem to indicate that the pull of the future is as real as the pressure of the past.

  Arthur Koestler

  Real, Animal, Past

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• War is part of our history, but it is not in at all the same sense part of our prehistory. It is one of the innovations that occurred between nine and eleven thousand years ago when the first civilized societies were coming into being. What has been invented can be changed; war is not in our genes.

  Gwynne Dyer

  War, Years, Innovation

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• I can't wait to be able to drive, but it's hard. Good driving doesn't really run in my family genes. My mother is possibly the worst driver ever.

  Emma Watson

  Mother, Running, Waiting

  "The Late Show with David Letterman", July 11, 2007.

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• Year-end financial statements express a truth about office life which is no less irrefutable yet also, in the end, no less irrelevant or irritating than an evolutionary biologist's proud reminder that the purpose of existence lies in the propagation of our genes.

  Alain de Botton

  Lying, Years, Year End

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2009.

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• Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players.

  Steven Pinker

  Player, Monologues, Interiors

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.44, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A meme (rhymes with dream) is a unit of information (a catchphrase, a concept, a tune, a notion of fashion, philosophy or politics) that leaps from brain to brain. Memes compete with one another for replication, and are passed down through a population much the same way genes pass through a species. Potent memes can change minds, alter behavior, catalyze collective mindshifts and transform cultures. Which is why meme warfare has become the geopolitical battle of our information age. Whoever has the memes has the power.

  Kalle Lasn

  Dream, Fashion, Philosophy

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• I'm not as optimistic as Gene Roddenberry was. I fall somewhere in the middle. But as a romantic, I like to think things are going to get bigger rather than worse.

  J. J. Abrams

  Fall, Optimistic, Thinking

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• Complex organisms cannot be construed as the sum of their genes, nor do genes alone build particular items of anatomy or behavior by themselves. Most genes influence several aspects of anatomy and behavior as they operate through complex interactions with other genes and their products, and with environmental factors both within and outside the developing organism. We fall into a deep error, not just a harmful oversimplification, when we speak of genes "for" particular items of anatomy or behavior.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Fall, Errors, Interaction With Others

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• There is no gene "for" such unambiguous bits of morphology as your left kneecap or your fingernail. [...] Hundreds of genes contribute to the building of most body parts and their action is channeled through a kaleidoscopic series of environmental influences: embryonic and postnatal, internal and external. Parts are not translated genes, and selection doesn't even work directly on parts.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Environmental, Body, Action

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.91, W. W. Norton & Company

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