The Genes Quotes

It is difficult to imagine a greater imposition than adding genes to future generations that changes the nature of future people.

Almost always, genes are about potentials and vulnerabilities rather than about determinism.

More and more research is suggesting that, far from being simply encoded in the genes, much of personality is a flexible and dynamic thing that changes over the life span and is shaped by experience.

Dreamers don't have special genes. They find circumstances that amplify their dreams.

Paleontologists do not have to search for famous "missing link" from which humans supposedly came, and current great apes. This link is simply the socialist - because he has both monkey genes.

If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation.

The gene as the basis of life.

It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.

Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.

I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.

Falling in love indicated that your genes were complementary to those of the loved one. It told you nothing about when your personalities and sexualities were compatible.

Most of what you hear about entrepreneurshi p is all wrong. It's not magic; it's not mysterious; and it has nothing to do with genes. It's a discipline and, like any discipline, it can be learned.

Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).

You get diarrhea out here, you dehydrate from the inside out - you leave the gene pool.

Food is medicine. We can actually change our gene expressions with the foods we eat.

Less than 5% of cancers are related to genes. 95% are influenced by your lifestyle. You are the author of your biological story.

I've inherited the bad poetry genes, but not the inventor genes.

While we can't turn off the aging gene, we do go to a lot of extremes to stay young, I've noticed.

For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.

The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.

Technology is the gene uncorked.

We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.

You don't have to go the gym - just walk 10,000 steps a day and you are activating your good genes. But do practise yoga.

I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and in your blood.

I'm really, really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes.

I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes.

Genes are important for understanding our behavior. Incredibly important - after all, they code for every protein pertinent to brain function, endocrinology, etc.

Rulership is in our genes, dominion is in our makeup. We were designed to rule the earth.

A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd.

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

I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat under my eyes. My mum looked 30 when she was 60, so I guess I owe it all to genes and hair dye.

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.

I must confess, when I see anyone with an Obama 2012 bumper sticker, I recognize them as a threat to the gene pool.

No one but Gene Tierney could have played 'Laura.' There was no other actress around with her particular combination of beauty, breeding, and mystery.

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.

I would love to have children, yes. Maybe even adopt them. I'm not sure that I should pass on my genes.

I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry

But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.

From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman.

I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me.

We've got the catalog, now we just have to figure it out. It's not going to be one gene. It's going to be an accumulation of changes.

If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone

Hillary Clinton has emphasized that she is afflicted with or possessed of the responsibility gene.

Of course, I have Gene Roddenberry to thank for the creation of Barclay.

I've had two children and no surgery. My body is the result of good genes and a healthy attitude.

If you can make yourself symmetrical, you're sending out a sign that you've got good genes, you've got a good upbringing and therefore you'll make a good mate.