Genome Quotes

• The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.

  Matt Ridley

  Book, Years, Four

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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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• Heritability pertains to the entirety of the genome, not to a single gene.

  Steven Pinker

  Genes, Entirety

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• While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require.

  Samuel Wilson

  Environmental, Doe, Size

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• Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.

  J. Philippe Rushton

  Silly, Race, People

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• It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions.

  Samuel Wilson

  Power, Environmental, Important

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• One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.

  Samuel Wilson

  Responsibility, Science, Decision

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• The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand.

  Thomas Cech

  Views, People, Excitement

  "Funding above and beyond scientific research". EMBO reports interview, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. September 15, 2001.

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• Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.

  Danny Hillis

  Motivation, Inspiration, Medical

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• Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

  Bill Gates

  Able, Carbon, Humans

  Bill Gates, Janet Lowe (1998). “Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur”, p.215, John Wiley & Sons

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• By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.

  Barry Schuler

  Writing, Technology, Able

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• If we want to make the best products, we also have to invest in the best ideas... Every dollar we invested to map the human genome returned $140 to our economy... Today, our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to Alzheimer's... Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Alzheimer's, Race

  Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.

  James D. Watson

  Would Be, Lifetime, My Own

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• In all probability the Human Genome Project will, someday, find that I carry some recessive gene for optimism, because despite all my best efforts I still can't scrape together even a couple days of hopelessness. Future scientists will call it the Pollyanna Syndrome, and if forced to guess, I'd say that mine has been a way-long case history of chasing rainbows.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Couple, Best Effort, Chasing Rainbows

  "Damned". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2011.

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• As was predicted at the beginning of the Human Genome Project, getting the sequence will be the easy part as only technical issues are involved. The hard part will be finding out what it means, because this poses intellectual problems of how to understand the participation of the genes in the functions of living cells.

  Sydney Brenner

  Mean, Science, Cells

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• I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.

  Francis Collins

  Thinking, People, Study

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• Living in your genome is the history of our species.

  Barry Schuler

  Species

  "Genomics 101". Taste3 Talk, www.ted.com. June 30, 2008.

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• Viruses don't just make us sick. They can actually sometimes end up in our genomes.

  Carl Zimmer

  Sick, Viruses, Sometimes

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I am thrilled to see my genome.

  James D. Watson

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• The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.

  James D. Watson

  Essence, Bipolar, Levels

  "Watson retires". Prof. James D. Watson's statement on blacks and whites just before his retirement from the post of Chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York State, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2007.

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• Over millions of years the viruses in our genome mutate more and more so the look less and less and less recognizable as viruses and so if there was a virus that infected our pre mammal ancestors like 250 million years ago, which it probably did, we can't see it because it just looks totally random.

  Carl Zimmer

  Years, Mammals, Viruses

  Source: bigthink.com

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• In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

  Freeman Dyson

  Writing, Artist, Generations

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• This is a whole new era where we're moving beyond little edits on single genes to being able to write whatever we want throughout the genome. The goal is to be able to change it as radically as our understanding permits.

  George M. Church

  Moving, Writing, Goal

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In agriculture, people have taken wild plants that can't be eaten by people - and turned them into wonderful food sources. And that's because genomes can change, and people working with plants have picked mutations. Mutations are nothing more than genetic changes.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Taken, Agriculture, People

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• By comparing the human and chimp genomes, we can see the process of evolution clearly in the changes (in DNA) since we diverged from our common ancestor.

  Bob Waterston

  Dna, Common, Evolution

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