Quotes About Genetics

Scientists know that women gravitate to men who have a different immune system from theirs.

Think of all the human suffering caused by the sad truth that beautiful sexy women or handsome Porsche-owning men often prove to have miserable genes for other traits

It's in our genetics. It's why women are the master species. We give birth and we can walk in heels.

Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.

It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it is in any animal merely statistical - not deterministic.

I inherited good skin from my mother, and I stay away from soap, which dries it out.

The origin of each of us stems from codes of genetic inheritance.

The speed you have, you can't practice it. You have to be fast from your birth on. There are other things you can practice, like flexibility or the little steps needed to stand good to the ball, but to be fast is a gift you get.

As a consequence, very tall parents tend to have tall children, but not as tall (on average) as they are themselves;

If you ever get in a relationship, the key to fighting is, never respond. Don't take the bait. You'll still get shit for not answering, but it's a smaller pile. Just let them win, because they always win anyway. That's the big secret to women: They're genetically built to win. We're built to watch TV. Better to forfeit at the beginning instead of letting it fester into a three-day thing.

Thandie has no interest in race. She thinks it's just a Freudian concept by definition, and there's more genetic difference between a Kenyan and a Ugandan than there is between a Kenyan and a Norwegian... she believes entirely that nationality is nothing but accident.

I'm Jewish and Italian, and I lucked out and got the nose of both cultures.

About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.

My father is a big believer in nature over nurture.

When you talk about obesity, there's so many things that can cause that. It can be a medical thing, or down to the individual. There's a lot of other things involved than eating a Mars bar.

Biology sets the context, and that is critical, but obesity still boils down to whether a person eats too much or exercises enough.

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) runs in my family, as do other mental health problems.

You can't alter your DNA and meet that expectation, so get over it. You are what you are.

Because evolution isn't directed. It's not streamlined. We're an attic stuffed with everything our ancestors found useful, even if it stopped being useful thousands of years ago. Unless it makes you have fewer babies, it hangs around in the genome. Being out of control of your rational priorities certainly increases the number of babies you'll make.

He had his mother's looks, his father's temper, and nobody's brains.

The only reason, for example, that you are not a rattlesnake is that your mother and father weren't rattlesnakes. You deserve very little credit for being what you are

Only in the most literal sense are we born on the day we leave our mother's womb. In the larger, truer sense, we are born of the past - connected to its fluidity, both genetically and experientially.

Maybe you inherited craziness like you did brown eyes or frizzy hair, I thought. Maybe you just went nuts and did that sort of thing if your mother got a divorce and a new boyfriend.

Only in the most literal sense are we born on the day we leave our mother's womb. In the larger, truer sense, we are born of the past—connected to its fluidity, both genetically and experientially.