Quotes About Genes

Aging followed by death is the price we pay for the immorality of our genes. You find this information soul-killing; I find it thrilling, liberating. Life, in my view, is simple, tragic, and eerily beautiful.

Our genes are a predisposition, but our genes are not our fate," I wrote to him. "If they were, then you'd be a victim, but you're not—you're one of the most powerful people on the planet.

The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going to be quenched.

We know that there are perhaps 40,000 unique mutations affecting more than 10,000 genes and that there are 500 of these genes that are bonafide drivers — causes — of cancer. Yet comparatively we have about a dozen targeted medications.

The right to health care provides insurance against the misfortune of having bad genes.

Dans les régions du génome où les séquences d'ADN des deux espèces peuvent être alignées (95 % de l'ADN), 98,8 % du génome de l'Homme et du Chimpanzé sont semblables. Notre humanité réside dans 1,2 % de nos gènes.

A future driven by genes has little to no direction and only short-term goals: stay healthy, have kids, enjoy life. A future designed in the best interest of knowledge has both direction and end goals.

The first step to increasing your happiness is to understand what positive psychology research has been telling us for the past fifteen years: the most significant factors in your day-to-day, moment-to-moment level of happiness are not circumstantial. They're not heredity. They're not dictated by your genes or caused by outside events. The most significant factors in your happiness are your actions. What you do every day.

Honestly, I'm blessed with good genes and a good sense of discipline - I eat whatever I want, but I eat very controlled portions and stop when I'm full.

The thing I'm most interested in is the nervous system. How do brains grow? How do genes build complicated nervous systems?

I think we need to start thinking about grounding our moral systems in our biology.

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

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

You need talent as a rider and I think I had that in my genes. But I think I also had a talent for suffering, which I thought was important, but also determination.

Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate.

Everyone in my family was pretty tall, so we always thought I would get bigger.

I wasn't blessed with those tall genes.

I am 5ft 10in. I got my height from my dad, who was very rangy. I like being tall.

I look better with a tan, but I've never gone the fake route. I don't need to - I have good foreign genes: half Spanish, half Hungarian.

I realize now that no simple, single-factor theory of depression will ever work. Depression is partly in our genes, partly in our childhood experience, partly in our way of thinking, partly in our brains, partly in our ways of handling emotions. It affects our whole being.

Life has a way of talking to the future. It's called memory. It's called genes.

Genetics and hard-wired imprints do not make up the whole of the software which programs our selves and our perceived universes.

I don't think, contrary to fashionable opinion, that genes play the only role, and I feel acute boredom whenever I hear another round of the current debate between Gay Pride advocates and Fundamentalists about whether homosexuality (or heterosexuality, if you think about it) results from genes (alone) or "choice" (alone.) That particular either/or seems even dumber to me than most Aristotelian dualisms.

Tom Smith has found that in Alaska, mothers and cubs tend to tarry at their dens on average two days before heading out for the sea ice, although some do so the same day the emerge ... 'I'm convinced that the only reason mothers tarry at dens is to monitor cubs' growth and development,' he says. 'Once it meets some standard written in her genes, off they go.