Genes Quotes - Page 5

I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene.

At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.

The fact that they let me in a movie with Gene Hackman has left me with no faith in show buisness.

Gene Roddenberry was a genius.

My whole family is missing that sports gene. I hope I didn't screw that up by marrying a great golfer.

Everything that we eat today has been improved through some sort of breeding process. Anytime you do this, you introduce not only the genes that you know, but some that are not characterized.

Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality.

Selfish-gene theory tells us nothing about the value of interacting through language.

I do not have a bride gene. I haven't been planning a wedding since I was 3. I never put a sheet on my head and pretended that it was a veil.

The only accounting we had of the origins and the structure of nature was Biblical Genesis.

As a kid, I loved Godot because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, its much more resonant.

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.

How can the Bible be "infallible" when from Genesis to Revelation slavery is commanded and condoned, but never condemned?

The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene

Skinny jeans were only good if you had skinny genes.

We are all predisposed to disease if we mismanage our genes.

As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version of Fred Astaire, and he was amazing as well.

I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.

Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.

Nothing like seeing the genesis of the relationship between an instrument and a child.

Those Genes Could Have Been Mine

There were a lot of things in life to be afraid of, but strangeness ought not be among them.

I cannot say that I have been hindered all my life by the permutation of genes that resulted in me being born a woman.

What I imagined doesn't require anti-gravity beams or anything too spectacular, just advances in analysing different genes, finding out what they can do and recombining them.

I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.