Genetics Quotes

"I wish I had the DNA of my mother-in-law, she is fabulous." "I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth" "The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard." "She got her good looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon." "I look at myself as a person that’s been fortunate enough to figure out what’s in my DNA." "I have called this principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved by the term of Natural Selection" "In evolution, you can’t keep what you believe is best for you; you must keep what goes and reliably gets reproduced." "The process of natural selection is smarter than you are." "Cultural evolution does not obey the laws of genetics." "We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes" "The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won’t find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice" "Natural selection is anything but random." "With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code." "We are determined by the fact of birth, by the bodily and mental structure we bring into the world"