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  • Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility. -- Alan Rickman
  • Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species. -- Lewis Thomas
  • Those Genes Could Have Been Mine -- Kamila Shamsie
  • Genes are biochemical recipes written in a four-letter alphabet called DNA. -- Matt Ridley
  • Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players. -- Steven Pinker
  • Genes are little items that are found in every living thing except Sen. Alfonse D'Amato. -- Dave Barry
  • Genes that underlie the capacity to receive, use and transmit information are the evolving properties. -- Peter R. Grant
  • Genes and family may determine the foundation of the house, but time and place determine its form. -- Jerome Kagan
  • Genes and education are fundamental building blocks with witch man develops personality and lifestyle in one way or other... -- Monica Rus Carmen psychologyst
  • Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies. -- Robert M. Sapolsky
  • Genes are important for understanding our behavior. Incredibly important - after all, they code for every protein pertinent to brain function, endocrinology, etc. -- Robert M. Sapolsky
  • Every minute, every second, the pattern of genes being expressed in your brain changes, often in direct or indirect response to events outside the body. Genes are the mechanisms of experience. -- Matt Ridley
  • If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
  • A person's health isn't generally a reflection of genes, but how their environment is influencing them. Genes are the direct cause of less than 1pc of diseases: 99pc is how we respond to the world. -- Bruce Lipton
  • Genes, Girls, and Gamow' was an attempt, even more than 'The Double Helix,' to mix science with one's personal life. With 'The Double Helix,' no one had done it before, but I thought I'd try. -- James D. Watson
  • Metaphysics of Evolution: What is Matter & Life? 'Recent discoveries from Russia confirm that DNA / Genes are resonant structures which are subtly interconnected to their environment. i.e. Genetic material can be manipulated by waves with certain resonant frequencies.' -- Alan Haselhurst
  • Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far. -- William Landay
  • Epigenetics doesn't change the genetic code, it changes how that's read. Perfectly normal genes can result in cancer or death. Vice-versa, in the right environment, mutant genes won't be expressed. Genes are equivalent to blueprints; epigenetics is the contractor. They change the assembly, the structure. -- Bruce Lipton
  • Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most selfish thing a gene can do is build a selfless brain. Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players. -- Steven Pinker
  • I believe that the writers of Genesis had detected the inherent selfishness in human nature that I propose is in our genes, and invented the myth of original sin to account for it. It's an image. I am not acting as an exegete - I don't interpret scripture. -- Christian de Duve
  • [G]enes make enzymes, and enzymes control the rates of chemical processes. Genes do not make "novelty seeking" or any other complex and overt behavior. Predisposition via a long chain of complex chemical reactions, mediated through a more complex series of life's circumstances, does not equal identification or even causation. -- Stephen Jay Gould
  • I guess I'm just lucky with my genes. -- Jamie Dornan
  • But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo. -- Steven Pinker
  • First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes. -- Daniel Nathans
  • I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party. -- Francesca Annis
  • If those guys with better genes trained as hard and intense as me, I wouldn`t stand a chance! -- Dorian Yates
  • People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity. -- Robert Kiyosaki
  • Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow. -- Lewis Thomas
  • We can change the expression of more than 70 percent of the genes that have a direct bearing on our health and longevity. -- David Perlmutter
  • My greatest vanity is my skin. It is the colour of gingerbread and, thanks to my mother's genes, smooth and mostly blemish-free. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • RNA interference has proven to be a quite reliable mechanism for turning genes off in a whole variety of different plants and animals. -- Craig Mello
  • Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes. -- Jonathan Katz
  • In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were chimpanzees. -- Michio Kaku
  • Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the environmental signals that -- Bruce H. Lipton
  • In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to characterize the species. -- E. O. Wilson
  • That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training. -- Philip Zimbardo
  • You cannot insert a gene you took from a bacteria into a seed and call it LIFE. You have not created life, instead you have only polluted it. -- Vandana Shiva
  • While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes. -- Mark Hyman, M.D.
  • What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done. -- Temple Grandin
  • New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods. -- Nina Fedoroff
  • Natural selection based on the differential multiplication of variant types cannot exist before there is material capable of replicating itself and its own variations, that is, before the origination of specifically genetic material or gene-material. -- Hermann Joseph Muller
  • I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible through conventional evolution. We shouldn't be complacent in thinking that we can predict the results. -- Colin Blakemore
  • One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes. That's not how it works. It works by realizing the concept of a replicator. -- Susan Blackmore
  • We are compelled to drive toward total knowledge, right down to the levels of the neuron and the gene. When we have progressed enough to explain ourselves in these mechanistic terms...the result might be hard to accept. -- E. O. Wilson
  • It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance. -- Lewis Thomas
  • Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate. -- Steven Pinker
  • Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught. -- Eric Ries
  • My parents couldn't give me a whole lot of financial support, but they gave me good genes. My dad is a handsome son-of-a-gun, and my mom is beautiful. And I've definitely been the lucky recipient. So, thank you, Mom and Dad. -- Ashton Kutcher
  • Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes. -- Keith Henson
  • 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
  • We all have genes that come from our ancestors that aren't used - they're not turned on. So we actually carry ancient genes with us. If you could figure out how to turn those on, you could resurrect ancient characteristics from our ancestors. -- Jack Horner
  • They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines. -- Richard Dawkins
  • In true natural selection, if a body has what it takes to survive, its genes automatically survive because they are inside it. So the genes that survive tend to be, automatically, those genes that confer on bodies the qualities that assist them to survive. -- Richard Dawkins
  • Man is a competitive creature, and the seeds of conflict are built deep into our genes. We fought each other on the savannah and only survived against great odds by organising ourselves into groups which would have had a common purpose, giving morale and fortitude. -- Robert Winston
  • There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague resemblance to the hillbilly gene pool that Elvis came from. People would say, 'You want to be Elvis' and I would say, 'No'. -- Chris Isaak
  • Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do. -- Richard Dawkins
  • What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders? -- John Updike
  • We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children. -- Anne Lamott
  • If someone's liver doesn't work, we blame it on the genes; if someone's brain doesn't work properly, we blame the school. It's actually more humane to think of the condition as genetic. For instance, you don't want to say that someone is born unpleasant, but sometimes that might be true. -- James D. Watson
  • My culture comes from everywhere. I'm sick of this notion of nationality, that if you're brought up in the same city or same country you're the same. Even three kids brought up in the same family with the same genes, they are not the same. Just consider a human a human. -- Marjane Satrapi
  • Looking out over the port of Dover, with the endless steam of boats coming in and out, every British citizen is reminded that belonging here has never been about blood or genes. It's simply about being at home on this discrete island and being aware of the privileges and responsibilities that brings. -- Julian Baggini
  • An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version. -- Richard Dawkins
  • No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they had 10,000 years ago. Our bodies are designed to have a certain amount of physical stress and violence in them. We're designed to run from jaguars and fight to defend our territory. -- Joe Rogan
  • Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its philosophy, its teachings remain in us. They rule our thinking, our conduct, our attitude to others. The situation is a demonic paradox: we have toppled the system but we still carry its genes. -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party. -- Lewis Thomas
  • The most important factors for a long life, I think, are partly in the genes; number two is lifestyle, which includes healthy diet and regular exercise. I walk, run and swim every day. However, I think too much exercise is also unhealthy because of over-stress; sometimes people who exercise too many hours per day die early. -- John Gokongwei
  • Nutrition trumps genes. -- T. Colin Campbell
  • I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes. -- Kate Walsh
  • We share half our genes with the banana. -- Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
  • Character, I am sure, lies in the genes. -- Taylor Caldwell
  • We South Asians have sycophancy in our genes! -- Cyrus Broacha
  • I have skinny genes. My mother weighs 90 pounds. -- Ellen Barkin
  • It's in our genes, we were built to wander. -- Helen Fisher
  • My genes tie me to those that despised me. -- Brother Ali
  • Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones. -- Thomas Lovejoy
  • Skinny jeans were only good if you had skinny genes. -- Matt Dunn
  • I love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes. -- Bo Burnham
  • You inherit your environment just as much as your genes. -- Johnny Rich
  • ...cells are not controlled by genes and neither are we. -- Bruce H. Lipton
  • Please don't wear skinny jeans if you don't have skinny genes. -- Seth Rogen
  • I've inherited the bad poetry genes, but not the inventor genes. -- Kit Harington
  • Selfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear. -- Richard Dawkins
  • We are all predisposed to disease if we mismanage our genes. -- Mark Sisson
  • I'm really, really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes. -- Josh Brolin
  • The self is the resultant of the interest of the genes. -- Eric Baum
  • Dreamers don't have special genes. They find circumstances that amplify their dreams. -- Seth Godin
  • I am the master of my genes, not the victim of them. -- Bruce H. Lipton
  • I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes. -- Maeve Binchy
  • Almost always, genes are about potentials and vulnerabilities rather than about determinism. -- Robert M. Sapolsky
  • My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down. -- Martin Parr
  • I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here. -- Bill Watterson
  • Happiness is a choice; not just a matter of genes or good luck. -- Karen Salmansohn
  • It's in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I'm clearly dramatic. -- Mariah Carey
  • Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment). -- Stephen Covey
  • And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance. -- Daniel Nathans
  • Somehow I have managed to delay looking old. In reality I have good genes. -- Michael Schumacher
  • I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one. -- Gloria Estefan
  • I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes. -- Eric Heiden
  • Well, my mom was an Olympian, so we have some good genes on that front. -- Ivanka Trump
  • How you eat tells your genes what type of body you want to have later. -- Dharma Singh Khalsa
  • The body is a survival machine programmed to propagate the genes that reside inside it. -- Richard Dawkins
  • We now know 600 different genes involved in cancer - giving rise to new drug targets. -- Eric Lander
  • So you're her brother? Says Linn. I guess we know who got the good genes. -- Veronica Roth
  • DNA has nothing to do with success. Turn your genes into overalls and get to work. -- Darren Hardy
  • The problem with existing biology is you change only one or two genes at a time. -- Craig Venter
  • Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes. -- Spencer Wells
  • I have good genes in my family, so we'll see just how long I'll be around. -- Marcia Cross
  • Rulership is in our genes, dominion is in our makeup. We were designed to rule the earth. -- Myles Munroe
  • Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization. -- Margaret Sanger
  • You could say singing is in our genes. Both our parents sang and made up songs constantly. -- Isaac Hanson
  • I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist. -- Winona Ryder
  • My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest. -- Warren Buffett
  • The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor." -- Walter Gilbert
  • Basque and Celt. Criminals and barbarians. I didn't think there could be a more primitive pairing of genes. -- Karen Marie Moning
  • Basque and Celt. Criminals and barbarians. I didn't think there could be a more primitive pairing of genes." -- Karen Marie Moning
  • It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital. -- Louis O. Kelso
  • There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
  • A lot of guys have better genes but if you work hard and consistently, you can outperform them. -- Frank Zane
  • We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations. -- Craig Venter
  • What shall it profit a male if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his immortal genes? -- Richard Dawkins
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