Genes Quotes - Page 12

• I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.

  Robin Trower

  People, Jerry

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• A shared choice movement sees the fetus as the genes of a woman and the genes of a man; the flesh of the woman, the flesh of the man; the bone of a woman, the bone of a man; the responsibility of a woman, the responsibility of a man; the rights of a woman, the rights of a man. It desires a transition to equality.

  Warren Farrell

  Responsibility, Men, Rights

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.

  Larry Wall

  Missing, Enemy

  Usenet article <199708040319.UAA16213@wall.org>, 1997.

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• There's one bright spot in the generally gloomy picture know as the Pacific Conflict Zone. According to my calculations, by the year 2500 or so we should have killed off every last member of our species who is stupid enough to take part in so futile a pastime as this war between "ideals," and with luck they won't have left their genes behind because they'll typically have been killed at an age when society thinks they're too young to assume the responsibility of childbearing. After that we may get some peace and quiet for a change.

  John Brunner

  War, Stupid, Responsibility

  "Stand on Zanzibar". Book by John Brunner, 1968.

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• Falling in love indicated that your genes were complementary to those of the loved one. It told you nothing about when your personalities and sexualities were compatible.

  Ken MacLeod

  Falling In Love, Personality, Loved Ones

  "Learning the World". Book by Ken MacLeod, 2005.

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• Human beings function better if they are deceived by their genes into thinking that there is a disinterested objective morality binding upon them, which all should obey.

  E. O. Wilson

  Thinking, Morality, Function

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• Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone.

  Donella Meadows

  Zoos, Needs, National Parks

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• Are the people who run for president really the best in a country of 240 million? If so, something has happened to the gene pool.

  Bob McKenzie

  Running, Country, People

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• Basketball has always been a sport I loved and grew up playing. For me, it was one of those things that... I guess baseball was just in my genes a little bit. I have a lot of cousins that played baseball. Basketball is not an easy sport - you definitely got to be gifted to play that game. I felt like I was pretty good at it, but my ability was better in baseball.

  Dellin Betances

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

  Interview with Peter Richman, bleacherreport.com. July 21, 2014.

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• The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes.

  Barry Lopez

  Character, Land, Mind

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• The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that has an incomplete set of chromosomes.

  Valerie Solanas

  Males, Female, Scum

  The S.C.U.M. Manifesto (1967)

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• Too much of my family has messed with drugs. Addiction might be in my genes, so I ain't never tryin' it. It's something you can't control, and I don't like things I can't control. I worked too hard to have it taken away for something stupid. I ain't gonna be laughed at the way I used to laugh at those crackheads.

  Edgerrin James

  Stupid, Taken, Laughing

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• The food you eat is among the most significant factors affecting your genes and pushing them toward cancer by causing mutation or disruption in their function. That is, what you eat can either prevent cancer and other chronic illnesses or help cause them.

  Dharma Singh Khalsa

  Cancer, Mutation, Pushing

  Dharma Singh Khalsa (2003). “Food As Medicine: How to Use Diet, Vitamins, Juices, and Herbs for a Healthier, Happier, and Longer Life”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Genes are biochemical recipes written in a four-letter alphabet called DNA.

  Matt Ridley

  Dna, Four, Recipes

  Matt Ridley (2012). “The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene is a classic example of science fiction.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Selfish, Example, Fiction

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• The problem with the emotions is not that they are untamed forces or vestiges of our animal past; it is that they were designed to propagate copies of the genes that built them rather than to promote happiness, wisdom, or moral values.

  Steven Pinker

  Animal, Past, Untamed

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.370, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Perhaps, you know, new laws, new domains of potential openness are occurring as the universe ages, and complexity previously disallowed is now possible, and we are that complexity. We are nature moving out of its genetic phase - a phase under the control of chemical genes, which are physical structures, in to an epigenetic phase, a phase of culture ruled by codes, transformable culturally confined codes - mathematics, religion, philosophy, art, dance, humor.

  Terence McKenna

  Art, Philosophy, Moving

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• I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'

  Bill Gates

  Book, Molecular Biology, Favourite

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• Nothing else is going to matter if we kill the earth and we kill the food and we destroy the gene pool and there aren't any people around to enjoy the earth.

  Rosalie Bertell

  People, Earth, Matter

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• You have only three real friends: Jesus Christ, Sears Roebuck, and Gene Talmadge.

  Eugene Talmadge

  Jesus, Real, Three

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• Recently, results of the Human Genome Project have shattered one of Science's fundamental core beliefs, the concept of genetic determinism. We have been led to believe that our genes determine the character of our lives, yet new research surprisingly reveals that it is the character of our lives that controls our genes. Rather than being victims of our heredity, we are actually masters of our genome.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Believe, Character, Research

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• Fred Astaire told me things I will never forget. Gene Kelly also said he liked my dancing. It was a fantastic experience because I felt I had been inducted into an informal fraternity of dancers, and I felt so honored because these were the people I most admired in the world.

  Michael Jackson

  People, Dancing, Dancer

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• I think that a new kind of replicator has recently emerged on this very planet. It is staring us in the face. It is still in its infancy, still drfiting clumsily about in its primeval soup, but already it is achieving evolutionary change at a rate which leaves the old gene panting far behind.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Soup, Faces

  "The Selfish Gene". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1976.

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• We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. We can even discuss ways of deliberately cultivating and nurturing pure, disinterested altruism - something that has no place in nature, something that has never existed before in the whole history of the world. We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, Rebel, Machines

  "The Selfish Gene". Book by Richard Dawkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1976.

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