Genes Quotes - Page 17

• Get it out of your head that wine’s just a drink. Real wine is like a missing human gene. It vaccinates you against mundanity, against bad life.

  D.B.C. Pierre

  Real, Wine, Missing

  DBC Pierre (2011). “Lights Out in Wonderland: A Novel”, p.74, W. W. Norton & Company

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• But who are we, really? Just a bundle of good genes and bad genes mixed with good habits and bad habits. And since there's no gene for coolness or confidence, then being uncool and unconfident are just bad habits, which can be changed with enough guidance and will power.

  Neil Strauss

  Guidance, Enough, Habit

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.166, Canongate Books

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• Of course when people are as talented as Jim O'Rourke or Gene Coleman, pretty soon you know that they're going to be part of the bigger scene anyway.

  Evan Parker

  People, Scene, Bigger

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• The male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage

  Valerie Solanas

  Abortion, Males, Female

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

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• A large animal needs a large area. If you protect that area, you're also protecting thousands of other plants and animals. You're saving all these species that future generations will want - you're saving the world for your children and your children's children. . . . The destruction of species is final. If you lose a species, you lose the genes, you lose all the potential drugs and potential foods that could be useful to the next generations. The ecosystems will not function as they have.

  George Schaller

  Children, Animal, Ecosystems

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• The primary problem is not to provide the public with the knowledge of how far it is to the nearest star and what genes are made of .. Rather, the problem is to get them to reject irrational and supernatural explanations of the world, the demons that exist only in their imaginations, and to accept a social and intellectual apparatus, Science, as the only begetter of truth.

  Richard Lewontin

  Stars, Imagination, Intellectual

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• I ended up gettin a little Gibson amp and a bass, because of Gene Simmons of Kiss. Myself and three other kids would pretend to be Kiss - I liked Gene the best.

  Jason Newsted

  Kids, Kissing, Three

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• The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire population was started by a single pair or by a single fertilized female. These 'founders' of the population carried with them only a very small proportion of the variability of the parent population. This 'founder' principle sometimes explains even the uniformity of rather large populations, particularly if they are well isolated and near the borders of the range of the species.

  Ernst Mayr

  Loss, Science, Parent

  Ernst Mayr (1942). “Systematics and the Origin of Species, from the Viewpoint of a Zoologist”, p.237, Harvard University Press

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• It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.

  Patricia Heaton

  Sports, Brother, Father

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• No one but Gene Tierney could have played 'Laura.' There was no other actress around with her particular combination of beauty, breeding, and mystery.

  Vincent Price

  Actresses, Mystery, Laura

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• People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Lying, People, Marketing

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• Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.

  Walter Gilbert

  Animal, Bacteria, Biology

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• I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and in your blood.

  Sebastian Barry

  Book, Blood, Play

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• Everything is now for sale. Even those areas of life that we once considered sacred like health and education, food and water and air and seeds and genes and a heritage. It is all now for sale.

  Maude Barlow

  Health, Air, Water

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• Inarticulate wretches have been behind most of the major advances in civilization. If Vincent Van Gogh had been able to get on with his neighbours, then he might have become an excellent painter-decorator, and received a big turn out at his funeral, and that would be that. But the genes wouldn't let him.

  Declan Lynch

  Civilization, Funeral, Would Be

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• There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene.

  Harold E. Varmus

  Science, Atoms, Three

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• I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone

  Dom DeLuise

  Dinner, Wilder

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• It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas

  Edward Bond

  Mean, Ideas, Democracy

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• Your own beliefs are selecting your genes, and if you don't have the right genes to handle the stress that your in, your belief will rewrite your genes in an effort to do so.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Stress, Effort, Belief

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• No matter what nationality or color is champion, we Irish like to say that we have a heavyweight champion, Gene Tunney retired, who can come back and take the title at any time.

  Tommy Gibbons

  Color, Boxing, Heavyweights

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• I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.

  Virginia Madsen

  Mother, Father, Native American

  FaceBook post by Virginia Madsen from Feb 03, 2017

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• Think of all the human suffering caused by the sad truth that beautiful sexy women or handsome Porsche-owning men often prove to have miserable genes for other traits

  Jared Diamond

  Love, Beautiful, Sexy

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• You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.

  Daniel Quinn

  Life, Science, Moon

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.87, Bantam

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• In mathematics and science, there is no difference in the intelligence of men and women. The difference in genes between men and women is simply the Y chromosome, which has nothing to do with intelligence.

  Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

  Men, Differences, Mathematics

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• How you eat tells your genes what type of body you want to have later.

  Dharma Singh Khalsa

  Healthy, Body, Want

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