“ The only thing I'm missing is I have no rhythm and I sing off-key often, if there's no music helping me. So if I had different genes or if someone could infuse a gene - or maybe the stem cell thing will find a gene for me - to make me so that I could sing. ”
- Carl Reiner- Copy
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“ We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal. ”
- Walter Gilbert- Copy
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“ For each chromosome contributed by the sperm there is a corresponding chromosome contributed by the egg, there are two chromosomes of each kind, which together constitute a pair. ”
- Thomas Hunt Morgan- Copy
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“ It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance. ”
- Lewis Thomas- Copy
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“ There is no moral virtue in being endowed with genius rather than talent: It is a gift of the gods or the luck of the genes. ”
- Dorothy Green- Copy
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“ I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift. ”
- Mavis Gallant- Copy
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“ We all have genes. This is a universal issue. It is something that impacts everyone. ”
- Judd Gregg- Copy
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“ In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment. ”
- Walter Gilbert- Copy
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“ It has been proven that the pig is the only homosexual animal. As this perversion is most prevalent in pork-eating nations, it is obvious that it gets into your genes through the meat. ”
- Tasleem Ahmed- Copy
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“ In all honesty, I realized - along with Gene and Paul - that there obviously are going to be some fans who don't like it because they would call it sacreligious, but others who would like to hear it. I was a little uptight at first about doing it, but once I thought more about it, Gene and Paul assured me that it would be great for me to sing it. ”
- Eric Carr- Copy
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“ There is a hereditary selective advantage to membership in a powerful group united by devout belief and purpose. Even when individuals subordinate themselves and risk death in common cause, their genes are more likely to be transmitted to the next generation than are those of competing groups who lack equivalent resolve. ”
- Edward O. Wilson- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Donald O’Connor- Copy
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“ What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders? ”
- John Updike- Copy
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“ Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values its philosophy, its teachings remain in us. They rule our thinking, our conduct, our attitude to others. The situation is a demonic paradox: we have toppled the system but we still carry its genes. ”
- Ryszard Kapuscinski- Copy
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“ Let's face it, you have to have a slightly recessive gene that has a little something to do with the brain to go out on the football field and beat your head against other human beings on a daily basis. ”
- Tim Green- Copy
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“ We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language… . We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a "common goal" of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music. ”
- Lewis Thomas- Copy
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