Genetics Quotes - Page 3

• Love and intimacy are at the roots of what makes us sick and what makes us well, what causes sadness and what brings happiness, what makes us suffer and what leads to healing...I am not aware of any other factor in medicine- not diet, not smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not drugs, not surgery- that has a greater impact on our quality of life, incidence of illness and premature death from all causes.

  Dean Ornish

  Stress, Healing, Sadness

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• Every woman has a different metabolism and different genetics, so rather than compete with one another, concentrate on yourself and be the best you can be.

  Alessandra Ambrosio

  Different, Being The Best, Metabolism

  "Alessandra Ambrosio's Stay-Healthy Secrets" by Erin Bried, www.self.com. May 19, 2014.

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• From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad personality types - each influenced by a different brain chemical: I call them the Explorer, Builder, Director, and Negotiator.

  Helen Fisher

  Believe, Fall, People

  "Finding and Keeping the Love of Your Life". Article by Helen Fisher, www.oprah.com. February, 2009.

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• The fact is that humans have been shaping the genetics of what they eat for thousands of years. Genetic engineering simply speeds up the process that used to take generations. Preventing people from getting things like golden rice or disease-resistant cassava destroys human life, and does not spare the environment in any way.

  Annalee Newitz

  Engineering, Years, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It is important to democratize personal genetics and make it more accessible.

  Anne Wojcicki

  Important

  "Human Genetics Is Now A Viable Hobby — 23andme Cuts Its Price To $399" by Aaron Rowe, www.wired.com. September 8, 2008.

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• Every human being is a universe within themselves. Your mother and father participated with God to create a soul who would never cease to exist. Your parents, as co-creators, supplied the stuff, genetics and more, uniquely combined to form a masterpiece, not flawless but still astounding; and we took from their hands what they brought to us, submitting to their timing and history and added what only we could bring to them -- life. You were conceived, a living wonder who exploded into being.

  William P. Young

  Mother, Father, Hands

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• A racist is a man who believes in history, genetics, and his eyes!

  Tom Anderson

  Believe, Eye, Men

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• Molecular genetics, our latest wonder, has taught us to spell out the connectivity of the tree of life in such palpable detail that we may say in plain words, "This riddle of life has been solved."

  Max Delbruck

  Taught Us, Tree, Details

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• Karma means ultimate responsibility. You even take responsibility for your genetics.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Karma

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• The problem [with genetic research] is, we're just starting down this path, feeling our way in the dark. We have a small lantern in the form of a gene, but the lantern doesn't penetrate more than a couple of hundred feet. We don't know whether we're going to encounter chasms, rock walls or mountain ranges along the way. We don't even know how long the path is.

  Francis Collins

  Couple, Wall, Dark

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• We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Discovery, World, Physics

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• People don't want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness, so they place the blame on something that they're not responsible for, like disease or genetics.

  James Frey

  Responsibility, People, Weakness

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.416, Anchor

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• Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'

  Temple Grandin

  Art, People, Giving

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• Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley.

  Temple Grandin

  Motivation, Inspiration, Thinking

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• A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant. We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics.

  May Sarton

  Mistake, Men, Order

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.96, Open Road Media

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• I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.

  Kate Flannery

  Thinking, Rainy, Cloudy

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• Every cell has certain knowledge. I think knowledge is contained within the genetics, even. I think scientists will find that. I don't think there's a gay gene, though. They may argue that down, but I don't think that, because that's a preference.

  RZA

  Gay, Thinking, Cells

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.

  Francis Crick

  Copying, Materials, Mechanism

  "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids," Nature, 25 Apr. 1953. Coauthored with James D.Watson.

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• According to current research, in the determination of a person's level of happiness, genetics accounts for about 50 percent; life circumstances, such as age, gender, ethnicity, marital status, income, health, occupation, and religious affiliation, account for about 10 to 20 percent; and the remainder is a product of how a person thinks and acts.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Religious, Determination, Thinking

  Gretchen Rubin (2015). “The Happiness Project (Revised Edition): Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun”, p.9, HarperCollins

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• You and I don't have the same genetics, we don't live in the same places, but we can have the same basic attitude - being comfortable in our skin.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Attitude, Skins, Comfortable

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• Boys always get the best eyelashes; it's like some kind of cosmic law. And half-breed kids get some kind of extra help there from genetics, too.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Kids, Boys, Extra Help

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• I wanted to write a book that imagined where advances in the study of genetics might lead us. Holman was the first character who came to me: I envisaged the misshapen offspring of beautiful, wealthy parents. Then I realised that he bore a striking resemblance to Toulouse-Lautrec. I developed that, made Holman an alcoholic who lives among hookers, an artist tortured by his disability.

  Jonathan Trigell

  Beautiful, Book, Writing

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• If we start with chimpanzees, they differ from us with the composition of the DNA by only just over one percent. So, as far as genetics go, we're almost identical. The composition of the blood, the immune system, the structure of the brain - almost identical.

  Jane Goodall

  Blood, Dna, Brain

  Interview with Suza Scalora, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My genetics are good, but they aren't crazy He-Man style.

  Kellan Lutz

  Crazy, Men, Style

  Interview with Mark Jacobs, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.

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• I'm lucky that I have good genetics. Like you said, it just gets better as I get older.

  Margaret Cho

  Get Better, Lucky, Like You

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