Genetic Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (G) Quotes

I`m very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That`s my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it`s not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

- Denzel Washington

Drugs are the sucker`s way, man, and I`m not a sucker. I don`t smoke, do blow, or hardly ever drink, but there`s still a fear: what if it`s genetic? I want to be like Evander Holyfield, who has a work ethic, morals, a real heart, who understands his responsibility to hep other people, To me, that`s an American hero living an American dream.

- Freddie Prinze Jr.

I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father`s respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.

- James Cameron

Reading for a part is very important, actually. There`s this sort of agency mentality: If you`re a big star, they should o My parents loved each other. I was raised in a house of total love and respect. My dad worked very hard and my mother was incredibly devoted to him. I can unequivocally, without any peradventure of doubt, tell you that I was raised with the kind of love that we only dream of. My mother and my father loved me and my brother like we love the air we breathe--out of necessity. It was a necessity for them to love us in some deep inner genetic calling in their hearts and minds and souls. I have that as a standard."

- James Woods

I assume there must be some kind of genetic thrust. My two grandmothers were very different, but both of them were frustrated musicians.

- Joni Mitchell

Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy.

- Nick Nolte

My eye? It`s a genetic thing. My dad had it and now I have it. You know, I just found out that it may be correctable a little bit, because it does impair my vision. When I look up, I lose sight in this eye. I think maybe for other people, it informs the way they see me. But I don`t really think about this eye, other than the times people talk about it, or when people take photographs of me sometimes they might say stuff about it. I don`t think it makes me look bad or anything. It just is.

- Forest Whitaker

Britain should be the world`s number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.

- Gordon Brown

In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today.

- Walter Lang

I was born with this. It`s a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your whole life without really knowing that something`s wrong. I had high blood pressure, and that was the first sign.

- Steven Cojocaru

It is somewhat of a rare genetic disease,

- Dorothy Moore

From a genetic perspective, there are significant strain differences in their structure.

- Brian Evans

In the end, ... picking the people to run a company on the basis of their genetic make-up is not the best way to survive.

- Andrew Neil

We`re pleased to extend our collaboration which combines our strengths in analyzing and understanding genetic variation associated with multiple common diseases with Merck`s extensive knowledge of the biology underlying neurodegenerative diseases and its global leadership in the development of innovative therapeutics. This target validation program is one example of the value we`re able to provide our therapeutic partners worldwide; other examples include identifying individuals who may benefit most from early therapeutic treatment and predict those individuals who will best respond to new therapies.

- Thomas White

(This has become a problem for some western trout species in areas where rainbow trout have been introduced.) We are losing the genetic integrity of many of the western cutthroat subspecies, ... Many populations are being wiped out, and once lost, they can`t be replaced.

- Jim Williams

One of the features of our annual meeting is that all the members gather in person to have face-to-face discussions about such subjects as breeding policies, canine health issues and testing programs. For example, we have discussed the prospects of including the North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association`s `utility test` to go along with the `natural ability` test we already now use in qualifying our dogs for our club`s breeding program. Likewise, there have been some useful debates on how to sanction any breeders who have dogs with serious genetic defects.

- Tom McDonald

Our Board and management team are united in the belief that we must take bold action now to lead the emerging era of molecular medicine with leading positions in both genetic and protein analysis.

- Tony White

This is a virus that has never been seen in humans before. This is consistent with previous epidemiologic and genetic research that has suggested that prostate cancer may result from chronic inflammation, perhaps as a response to infection.

- Eric Klein

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

- Adam Jaffe

Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.

- Ajay Mangal

I did not claim that every genetic change in a founder population is a genetic revolution. Evidently it requires a special constellation for the occurrence of a more drastic genetic reorganization.

- Alejandro Queral

Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species.

- Alejandro Queral

For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the - class as having one too few.

- Alex Attwood

It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid - usually by DNA, although certain small viruses use RNA as their genetic material.

- Alex Attwood

The genetic code describes the way in which a sequence of twenty or more things is determined by a sequence of four things of a different type.

- Alex Attwood

This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely near together on the genetic map.

- Alex Attwood

Do codons overlap? In other words, as we read along the genetic message do we find a base which is a member of two or more codons? It now seems fairly certain that codons do not overlap.

- Alex Attwood

It has yet to be shown by direct biochemical methods, as opposed to the indirect genetic evidence mentioned earlier, that the code is indeed a triplet code.

- Alex Attwood

It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code.

- Alex Attwood

More than 20 years of research shows that inactivity and a sedentary lifestyle are more significant in the effect on health than genetic factors.

- Alexandros Roussos

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.

- Alexei Arbatov

The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

- Alexis Gordon

I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.

- Alfred Russel Wallace

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

- Ali Haydar

In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.

- Ali Haydar

Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.

- Allen Lee

I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.

- Allen Lee

Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.

- Allen Merritt

I mean, we`re really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.

- Amanda Zimmerman

We do not know nearly enough at the present time about how genetic susceptibility and environmental exposure collaborate in disease.

- Andrea Gaston

I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begin to try to find a bacteriophage system which we might use to solve the genetic code.

- Andres Martinez

If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?

- Andrew Anagnost

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That`s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

- Andrew Lester

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

- Andrew Neff

Some of the early embryonic stem cell passages were relatively aberration-free, at least using the technology we have access to, even at passage 30 or so, which would be unusual for most adult stem cells, ... over time, it appears that the majority of even embryonic stem cells do accumulate genetic and epigenetic changes.

- Andy Lally

I`d have to say that, in general, models take themselves too seriously. Basically, they are genetic freaks who spend a couple of hours in hair and makeup.

- Andy Pfeifer

We can manipulate that process where normally genetic information is expelled, so that we can create eggs and embryos whose genetic constitution is identical to the mother,

- Andy Runzi

The goal of this project is to capture as much of the original genetic diversity as possible by including many areas in the ongoing breeding program being conducted by the ACF.

- Aristide Briand

I think the biggest issue is that men historically have had opportunities to start developing competitive skills at a very young age, whereas most women didn`t. So a lot of women athletes missed out on the opportunity to work out all those complex emotions that happen in fierce competition. Rather than genetic differences, I`ve found that the real differences go away when males and females have equal competitive experiences beginning at a young age. That`s happening more in our culture, and no question the top women athletes of the future are going to be just as tough and focused as the top men.

- Aron Buchman

The only thing that retards aging is calorie restriction, ... As genetic studies go forward, we`ll find out why.

- Barb Bartley