Genes Quotes

You cannot insert a gene you took from a bacteria into a seed and call it LIFE. You have not created life, instead you have only polluted it.

As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is that each gene controls the production, function, and specificity of a particular enzyme.

We can change the expression of more than 70 percent of the genes that have a direct bearing on our health and longevity.

We didn't stay in the caves. We haven't stayed on the planet. With biotechnology, gene sequencing, we are not going to even stay within the limitations of biology.

Please don't wear skinny jeans if you don't have skinny genes.

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.

Nutrition trumps genes.

DNA has nothing to do with success. Turn your genes into overalls and get to work.

Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.

Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.

Human beings are just gene machines.

I didn't have any inhibitions. I saw Elvis and Gene Vincent, and I thought, "Well, I can do this." And I liked doing it.

I guess I'm just lucky with my genes.

Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.

I am the master of my genes, not the victim of them.

Almost always, genes are about potentials and vulnerabilities rather than about determinism.

I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.

It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.

The gene as the basis of life.

E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.

Food is medicine. We can actually change our gene expressions with the foods we eat.

Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).

You get diarrhea out here, you dehydrate from the inside out - you leave the gene pool.

We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.

Technology is the gene uncorked.

While we can't turn off the aging gene, we do go to a lot of extremes to stay young, I've noticed.

I've inherited the bad poetry genes, but not the inventor genes.

You don't have to go the gym - just walk 10,000 steps a day and you are activating your good genes. But do practise yoga.

I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes.

No one but Gene Tierney could have played 'Laura.' There was no other actress around with her particular combination of beauty, breeding, and mystery.

I must confess, when I see anyone with an Obama 2012 bumper sticker, I recognize them as a threat to the gene pool.

Heritability pertains to the entirety of the genome, not to a single gene.

I'm really, really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes.

From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman.

I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes.

I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me.

We've got the catalog, now we just have to figure it out. It's not going to be one gene. It's going to be an accumulation of changes.

I would love to have children, yes. Maybe even adopt them. I'm not sure that I should pass on my genes.

I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone

We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.

I didn't smoke. I didn't smoke then, and I don't smoke now. We worked every day - that keeps you in pretty good shape. We could go for a long time in one take. You had to be in good shape with Gene Kelly.

I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry

Of course, I have Gene Roddenberry to thank for the creation of Barclay.

Hillary Clinton has emphasized that she is afflicted with or possessed of the responsibility gene.

If you can make yourself symmetrical, you're sending out a sign that you've got good genes, you've got a good upbringing and therefore you'll make a good mate.

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

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

Gene Simmons planned on being a success the moment he launched himself out of his mother's womb.

Of course our genes will make some capacities very much easier to learn than others, and of course our genes themselves are not learned. But the point remains that genes themselves are not cognitive capacities, and that anything worth calling a cognitive capacity will depend to some degree on learning and so not be innate.

We South Asians have sycophancy in our genes!