Genome Quotes

Genome Quote of the day

The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. He can be worshipped in the cathedral or in the laboratory. His creation is majestic, awesome, intricate, and beautiful.

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

Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.

Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.

When we look at chimpanzees . . . we get this extremely fine-grained view of evolution, and as a result we understand a lot more about the processes that are changing our own genome over time.

We have learned nothing from the genome.

I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt.

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

Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made.

Genome sequencing has changed taxonomy.

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.

To give us room to explore the varieties of mind and body into which our genome can evolve, one planet is not enough.

If you're looking for your own idea of your own identity you know the human genome may not be the best place to look for it. You're just looking at a bunch of viruses.

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

One of the big challenges now is to figure out just how many viruses there really are in the human genome. So far the estimate is 8.3% of our genome is virus, but it actually could be a lot higher.

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

When burned on a CD, the human genome is smaller than Microsoft Office.

We share half our genes with the banana. [After the announcement Jun 2000 that a working draft of the genetic sequence of humans had been completed by the Human Genome Project.]

We are here to celebrate the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome. Without a doubt, this is the most important, most wondrous map ever produced by human kind.

The very genetic determinism I posited in World's End as a way of shaking off my inherited demons is being proven in fact as we map out the human genome.

I am thrilled to see my genome.

I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces of America 2.'

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

It used to be thought that only a certain kind of virus could get into our genome and it's called a retrovirus and that's a virus that might be HIV for example.

Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that's quality software!

Living in your genome is the history of our species.

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

TP53 seems to encode the greater good, like a suicide pill in the mouth of a soldier that dissolves only when it detects evidence that he is about to mutiny.

The most intelligent members of the animal kingdom are human beings

Adam & Eve have been degraded, reduplicated forever, photocopies of photocopies, mistakes copied, magnified, augmented.

Parts of our genome simply cannot survive a situation where the environment suffers from the full overload of toxins we currently live in.

Happy homes are filled with the noise of children