Quotes About Genetics

The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.

Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.

It appears there's a little too much chlorine in their gene pool.

My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere.

There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.

The problem with the Gene pool is there arn't any lifeguards.

Swann's illness was the same that had killed his mother, who had been attacked by it at precisely the age which he had now reached. Our existences are in truth, owing to heredity, as full of cabalistic ciphers, of horoscopic castings as if there really were sorcerers in the world. And just as there is a certain duration of life for humanity in general, so there is one for families in particular, that is to say, in any one family, for the members of it who resemble one another.

I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes.

Just drop your jeans and gimme those genes.

It was easier to ignore the consideration of paternal genes then than it would be now. We did not then consider ourselves held in the genetic trap. We thought each infant was born pure and new and holy: a gold baby, a luminous lamb. We did not know that certain forms of breast cancer were programmed and almost ineluctable, and we would not have believed you if you had told us that in our lifetime young women would be subjecting themselves to preventative mastectomies.

Genes are overrated...Genes never helped anybody pick the right foods or hit the gym floor at 6 am. Its you as a person

The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom.

My dad used to say to me, 'You look more like me than I do.'

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins.

The child had his mother's eyes, his mother's nose, and his mother's mouth. Which leaves his mother with a pretty blank expression.

Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either.

I can't help thinking: Am I related in some traceable way to all redheads, if there were any such genetic thing as "all redheads"?

If your personal genome sequence was written out longhand, it would be a three-billion-word book. The King James Version of the Bible has 783,137 words, so your genetic code is the equivalent of nearly four thousand Bibles. And if your personal genome sequence were an audio book and you were read at a rate of one double helix per second, it would take nearly a century to put you into words!

The theory of evolution is outstandingly the most important theory in biology.

In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

We're in 'Jurassic Park' territory. If we go to the zoo in the future, we'll have zoos for extinct animals.