154 Genes Quotes for You to Enjoy

If you take 100 breast-cancer samples, 100 types of cancer have 100 different hallmarks of mutated genes. You could be nihilistic and say, 'Oh, God, we'll never be able to tackle this!' But there are deep, systematic, organizational principles at work in all that diversity. Siddhartha Mukherjee

White Americans believe we've made more progress since the end of slavery in 1865 than do black Americans for whom '12 Years a Slave' documents a collective memory, passed down in the genes and by the lore of generations. Steve Erickson

Memory Progress Black Made Collective White Down Believe Black Americans More Generations Genes Since Documents Passed Lore Years End Than American Whom Slave Slavery

Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate. Steven Pinker

Good Language Parents Kids Fact Could Simply Environment Genes Well Make Talkative Provide Articulate Same Children Mean Skills

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

Reflect Possibility Taboo Cases Shared Genes Most Even

There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work toward peace if we're just bloody killer apes and violence is in our genes?' Steven Pinker

No one knows what the nongenetic causes of individuality are. Perhaps people are shaped by modifications of genes that take place after conception, or by haphazard fluctuations in the chemical soup in the womb or the wiring up of the brain or the expression of the genes themselves. Steven Pinker

What I've discovered is that from football fans to undertakers, secret agents to marble-players and politicians, we all are part of at least one tribe. By tribes, I'm talking anthropologically; these groups are determined less by genes and more by the work they do or the passions they pursue. Susie Dent

I was so used to seeing so many women in the media flaunting their bodies 4 weeks after having a baby - and kudos to those who have genes that they can get right back into shape 2 weeks, 4 weeks after having a baby. But that never happened to me, and I remember going to my doctor asking why. Tia Mowry

Me Women Doctor Remember Baby Back Those Seeing Having Having A Baby Weeks Shape Never Genes Get Going After Happened Asking Bodies Used Who Many Media Why Right Right Back

It is in the genes of cities to bounce back from disasters - whether natural or man made. The denizens of suburbia have no choice but to survive and move on. But it is the manner in which different cities respond to emergencies that sets them apart. Vikas Swarup

Man Natural Made Move On Sets Back Respond Cities No Choice Emergencies Bounce Genes Disasters Survive Man-Made Move Different Whether Which Suburbia Apart Them To Survive Manner Choice

With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them. Walter Lang

I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time. Zeresenay Alemseged

Time You Technology Entertainment Old First Design Tools Back Evidence Beads Genes Track Learned Years Years Ago Same Stone Form Them Your Appeared Million Million Years

I love prehistory - particularly the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. These were times when our ancestors made a revolutionary change from being hunter-gatherers to being farmers, and when great migrations of people spread languages - and genes - across Europe. Alice Roberts

Love Great Change Age People Made Our Ancestors I Love Bronze Genes Particularly Spread Were Times Revolutionary Being Migration Prehistory Across Languages Farmers Europe

Music is in my genes. My entire family is into singing. Javed Ali

Music Family Singing Entire Genes

I give credit for my fitness to my good genes. Jeetendra

Fitness Good Give Genes Credit

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