Quotes About Discovery

Discovering I'm gay just sort of happened much later in life.

Finding out that I was gay when I was older was a shock and a disappointment.

My first acting role as a kid was on 'Freaks and Geeks.'

Like my gender, sometimes things don't come out right the first time.

For my entire life, I've wrestled with my gender identity.

A lot of what Groupon is generating is demand for something people didn't know they wanted.

We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it?

Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.

In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.

I have this idea of trying to catalog all the genes on the planet.

Billions of dollars have been put into genetic research.

We all want our genetic information. Why would you not want genetic information?

We're moving from reading the genetic code to writing it.

My feeling is that we can genetically encode almost any kind of chemistry. We just have to learn how to do that.

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 firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt.

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

I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.

Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.

The Human Genome Project has given us a genetic parts list.

Your genome isn't really secret.

I came late to the genre of folk music.

What I like is finding new angles on genres.

I want to explore all genres.