Quotes About Science

defective genes.

Based on their research, the Sanger scientists estimated that an embryo gains two or three new mutations every time its cells double.

Chromosomes were chemical mixtures, including proteins as well as a mysterious molecule called deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA for short.

single base may change from A to C. A stretch of a hundred bases may be accidentally copied out twice. A thousand bases may be cut out altogether. These are the mutations that scientists like Hugo de Vries and Thomas Hunt Morgan spent years trying to figure out. Mutations can produce new versions of genes—alleles, as they came to be known.

If heredity is a kind of memory, methylation suffers radical amnesia in every generation.

Our own lineage split off from that of chimpanzees roughly seven million years ago.

Galton recognized that in order to win people to his cause, he would need, as he put it, "a brief word to express the science of improving stock." In 1883, he came up with an enduring term: eugenics.

The "whole problem of heredity has undergone a complete revolution," Bateson declared. Mendel's discoveries could at last mature into a true science. Bateson christened it genetics.

We have the technology right now to effectively eradicate Huntington's disease from the planet, along with many other genetic disorders. But the messy realities of human existence--of economics, emotions, politics, and the rest--override the technological possibilities.

To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.

Al fin y al cabo, ¿qué clase de ciencia es ésa, capaz de poner un hombre en la luna pero incapaz de poner un pedazo de pan en la mesa de cada ser humano?

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

La paciencia es la madre de la ciencia -ofreció Marina. -Y la madrina de la demencia -repliqué.

Del resto, che razza di scienza è quella che porta un uomo sulla Luna, ma non è in grado di garantire un pezzo di pane a tutti gli essere umani?

Geduld ist die Mutter der Wissenschaft, entgegnete sie. Und die Patin des Wahnsinns.

Kakva je to znanost koja može ?ovjeka poslati na Mjesec, a ne može staviti komad kruha na stol svakog ?ovjeka?

Habrá advertido que no tenemos electricidad, Óscar. Lo cierto es que no creemos demasiado en los adelantos de la ciencia moderna. Al fin y al cabo, ¿qué clase de ciencia es esa, capaz de poner un hombre en la Luna pero incapaz de poner un pedazo de pan en la mesa de cada ser humano? —A lo mejor el problema no está en la ciencia, sino en quiénes deciden cómo emplearla —sugerí.

Acho que o problema não está na ciência, mas naqueles que decidem como empregá-la.

A férfi olyan hamar felmelegszik, mint a villanykörte: egy pillanat alatt t?zbe jön, s ugyanilyen hamar ki is h?l. Ellenben a nÅ' - s ez tudományosan bizonyított tény - úgy melegszik fel, mint a vasaló. Lassan, fokozatosan forr fel, mint a jó húsleves. De ha egyszer átforrósodott, nincs, aki leh?tse.

Sigurno ste primetili da nemamo struju, Oskare. Mi zapravo ne verujemo mnogo u postignu?a savremene nauke. Na kraju krajeva, kakva je to nauka koja je kadra da ?oveka spusti na Mesec, a nije u stanju da spusti komad hleba na trpezu svakog ljudskog bi?a? Možda problem nije u nauci, negu u onima koji odlu?uju o tome kako da se ona primeni, primetio sam.

La paciencia es la madre de la ciencia

az ön édesapja példás özvegységében az Å'si szüzesség oly állapotába tért vissza, ami erÅ'sen foglalkoztatja a tudományos közvéleményt, és még az érsekség is aktát nyitott róla a mihamarabbi boldoggá avatásához.

La magia es tan sólo una extensión de la física

The trouble is that man, going back to Freud - and excuse the metaphor - heats up like a light bulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand - and this is pure science - heats up like an iron, slowly, over a low heat, like a tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her. Like the steel furnaces in Vizcaya! I weighed up Fermin's thermodynamic theories.