Quotes about Genetics

Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-generated robots will take over our world.

My own area of expertise is the genetics of human disease. I was fortunate to be part of the team that found the genes for cystic fibrosis, and Huntington's disease and neurofibromatosis.

I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.

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

Genes are effectively one-dimensional. If you write down the sequence of A, C, G and T, that's kind of what you need to know about that gene. But proteins are three-dimensional. They have to be because we are three-dimensional, and we're made of those proteins. Otherwise we'd all sort of be linear, unimaginably weird creatures.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

It often runs in families," she remarked: "just as a love for pastry does.

More than two million years ago, mammoths and Asian elephants took different evolutionary paths - and around the same time, according to DNA research, so did their lumbering relatives in Africa.

What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?

DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

A defeatist attitude was not in his gene pool.

You're not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.