Genes Quotes - Page 16

• I think we all have a slightly gay gene inside us, don't we? It might be 0.00001 per cent as mine is, or one per cent as yours is.

  Steve Coogan

  Gay, Thinking, Might

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• In my childhood everything you heard, you could imagine what it looked like. Even singers that I would hear on the radio, I couldn't see what they looked like, so I imagined what they looked like. What they were wearing. What their movements were. Gene Vincent? When I first pictured him, he was a tall, lanky blond-haired guy.

  Bob Dylan

  Childhood, Guy, Movement

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• Every great leader has a generosity gene.

  Jack Welch

  Generosity, Leader, Great Leader

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• I've always been antagonistic to any naïve application of the selfish gene theory to politics. Some people have attempted to suggest that it means we are selfish or we should be selfish.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, Mean, People

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• We share half our genes with the banana. [After the announcement Jun 2000 that a working draft of the genetic sequence of humans had been completed by the Human Genome Project.]

  Robert May, Baron May of Oxford

  Science, Half, Bananas

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• What you see in living systems, and in genetic systems, is that the genes are already there, having arisen in the course of time, and when they are needed they become activated. If they had to be invented, the time would be too late.

  Jonas Salk

  Would Be, Too Late, Needed

  "Congressional Gold Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 16, 1991.

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• We have sexual lust even though we know perfectly well that, because we're using contraception, it is not going to result in the propagation of our genes. That doesn't matter, because the lust was built into our brains at a time when there was no contraception.

  Richard Dawkins

  Lust, Brain, Matter

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• My mother loved Gene Wilder when I was growing up, so I used to watch all his movies with her. I just adore him.

  Lucy Punch

  Mother, Growing Up, Watches

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• People who criticize The Selfish Gene like that often haven't read it. The selfish gene accounts for altruism toward kin and individuals who might be in a position to reciprocate your altruism.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, People, Might

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• Over the course of fifteen years of research on plant development, I came to the conclusion that for understanding the development of plants, their morphogenesis, genes and gene products are not enough.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Years, Understanding, Research

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• The study of how substances alter gene expression is part of the field of epigenetics. Some chemical exposures appear to turn on and turn off genes in ways that disregulate cell growth and predispose for cancer. From this perspective, our genes are less the command-and-control masters of our cells and more like the keys of piano, with the environment as the hands of the pianist.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Cancer, Piano, Keys

  Sandra Steingraber (2010). “Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment”, p.19, Da Capo Press

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• ... we find ourselves facing a rising tide of biologically active, synthetic organic chemicals. Some tinker with our hormones. Some attach themselves to our chromosomes and trigger mutations. Some cripple the immune system. Some light up our genes and so enhance the production of certain enzymes. If we could metabolize these chemicals into completely benign breakdown products and excrete them, they would pose less of a hazard. Instead, a good many of them accumulate.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Light, Good Man, Environmental

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• While we can't turn off the aging gene, we do go to a lot of extremes to stay young, I've noticed.

  Andrew Niccol

  Aging, Young, Turns

  "Comic-Con 2011: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried and Andrew Niccol Interview IN TIME". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 27, 2011.

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• I did not mean to suggest that autism could be traced to Neanderthal genes. The point is that some genes that have been implicated in autism changed pretty significantly between the time Neanderthal line and human line split.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Mean, Autism, Neanderthals

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

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• Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

  Peter Guber

  Successful, Journey, Bumps

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• We are born to be ourselves-in need of upgrading the gene-to look back again and again and befriend the person we once intended to become.

  Joan Anderson

  Change, Needs, Looks

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• You can over analyze anything. I constantly have to tell myself, 'Sabrina, stop thinking.' There are people who are just analytical. It's part of your gene makeup, or too much caffeine.

  Sabrina Lloyd

  Makeup, Thinking, People

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• I couldn't wait to look at someone who shared my genes. I thought my baby was going to provide a decoder key to my past. But then I looked at Pippa and realized, no, she's actually the key to my future.

  Emily Procter

  Baby, Past, Keys

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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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• A renaissance in cellular biology has recently revealed the molecular mechanisms by which thoughts and perceptions directly influence gene activity and cell behavior...Energy psychology, through its ability to rapidly identify and reprogram limiting misconceptions, represents the most powerful and effective process to enhance physical and emotional well being.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Powerful, Emotional, Cells

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• If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can pray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Weed, Philosophy, Mean

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• The 'secret of life' is BELIEF. Rather than genes, it is our beliefs that control our lives. PSYCH-K is a set of simple, self-empowering techniques to change your beliefs and perceptions that impact your life at a cellular level.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Psych, Simple, Impact

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• Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Brain, Behavior, Tendencies

  Robert M. Sapolsky (2004). “Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping - Now Revised and Updated”, p.293, Macmillan

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• I do have a dominant shopping gene but, unlike a reasonable person, I never plan for what I need each season. I enjoy the thrill of the hunt, the discovery and the endless search. In another creation I was, perhaps, a hunter/gatherer. After all these years, I’ve learned that it’s not the end result or finished product but the process I most enjoy. If my experimenting, searching and juxtaposing turns into an exciting outfit well, it’s just a big fat bonus!

  Iris Apfel

  Discovery, Years, Shopping

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• To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible to the molecules that make up my brain cells or to the genes that underwrote them.

  Scott Stossel

  Home, Fighting, Cells

  "The Prisoner of Stress" by Louis Menand, www.newyorker.com. January 27, 2014.

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