Genetics Quotes

• We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, Science, Survival

  1976 The Selfish Gene, ch.2.

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• Your genetics load the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger.

  Mehmet Oz

  Gun, Lifestyle, Triggers

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• Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Dna, Narrative, Stories

  "Seals, evolution, and the real 'missing link'" by Kenneth R Miller, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2009.

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• Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.

  John Maynard Smith

  Generations, Information

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• Health is a function of three things. 1. Luck 2. Genetics and 3. Choices in your lifestyle.

  Bill Walton

  Choices, Luck, Three

  Source: blitzweekly.com

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• All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.

  Francis Collins

  Gun, Environment, Illness

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• The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

  Alvin Toffler

  Science, Talking, Together

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• Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.

  Ben Harper

  Self, Play, Roles

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• Genetics loads the gun, lifestyle pulls the trigger.

  Caldwell Esselstyn

  Gun, Lifestyle, Triggers

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• I'd like to thank Mom and Dad, just for the genetics.

  Shawn Michaels

  Mom, Dad, Wwe

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• The secret to genius is not genetics but daily practice married with relentless perseverance.

  Robin Sharma

  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

  Twitter post from Dec 15, 2016

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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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• The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.

  Alvin Toffler

  Together, Next, Computer

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• Yes, there's genetics. Yes, there are chromosomes. Yes, there's biology. Yes, there are environment, sociology, parenting, economics, class, and all of that. But there is something else, as well.

  James Hillman

  Class, Environment, Biology

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Genetics help to some degree, but the most important thing is the mind and the spirit. These two are even more powerful than physical characteristics that are passed on.

  Serge Nubret

  Powerful, Two, Mind

  "An Interview With Six-Time World Champion Bodybuilder Serge Nubret!". Interview with Matt Weik, www.bodybuilding.com. July 16, 2014.

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• I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.

  Brad Pitt

  Hate, People, People You Hate

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• Ecology, like genetics, is not about equilibrium states. It is about change, change and change. Nothing stays the same forever.

  Matt Ridley

  Forever, States, Equilibrium

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• What has happened is that genetics has become a branch of information technology. It is pure information. It's digital information. It's precisely the kind of information that can be translated digit for digit, byte for byte, into any other kind of information and then translated back again. This is a major revolution. I suppose it's probably "the" major revolution in the whole history of our understanding of ourselves. It's something would have boggled the mind of Darwin, and Darwin would have loved it, I'm absolutely sure.

  Richard Dawkins

  Technology, Understanding, Mind

  "Life: A gene-centric view". Craig Venter and Richard Dawkins: A Conversation in Munich, www.edge.org. January 23, 2008.

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• It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection.

  Maurice Wilkins

  Life, Science, Growth

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• Fossil bones and footsteps and ruined homes are the solid facts of history, but the surest hints, the most enduring signs, lie in those miniscule genes. For a moment we protect them with our lives, then like relay runners with a baton, we pass them on to be carried by our descendents. There is a poetry in genetics which is more difficult to discern in broken bomes, and genes are the only unbroken living thread that weaves back and forth through all those boneyards.

  Jonathan Kingdon

  Lying, Home, Science

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• We all know interspecies romance is weird.

  Tim Burton

  Romance, Biology, Weirdness

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• In this generation, along with the dominating traits, the recessive ones also reappear, their individuality fully revealed, and they do so in the decisively expressed average proportion of 3:1, so that among each four plants of this generation three receive the dominating and one the recessive characteristic.

  Gregor Mendel

  Science, Average, Individuality

  "Experiments on Plant Hybrids" (1865)

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• Eating disorders are like a gun that's formed by genetics, loaded by a culture and family ideals, and triggered by unbearable distress.

  Aimee Liu

  Gun, Anorexia, Eating Disorder

  Aimee Liu (2011). “Restoring Our Bodies, Reclaiming Our Lives: Guidance and Reflections on Recovery from Eating Disorders”, p.4, Shambhala Publications

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• They say your genetics are going to set your direction regardless of what happens, but I think there's more to it than that.

  Charles Koch

  Thinking, Happens

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our genetics, to our physiology, to that particular environment in which we live. The earth is our home. Unless we preserve the rest of life, as a sacred duty, we will be endangering ourselves by destroying the home in which we evolved, and on which we completely depend.

  E. O. Wilson

  Home, Rest Of Life, Humanity

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