Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Covey

Most learning is social, or what I call the cultural DNA. Everyone knows that word of mouth advertising is the best advertising. That's social learning.

Stella McCartney

We try to make earth-friendly decisions whenever we can, as it's part of our brand DNA.

Ricky Van Veen

Notional is a production company with the DNA of an Internet company that makes content for everything.

Sydney Brenner

So that's when I saw the DNA model for the first time, in the Cavendish, and that's when I saw that this was it. And in a flash you just knew that this was very fundamental.

Joss Whedon

How do you know your Colossus is the genuine article in the first place? I read his mind. I matched his DNA. I smelled him. I also did that.

And we're not going to do any DNA testing or anything.

DNA repair stands as the dike between us and the inundation of mutations.

John Walsh

DNA is the fingerprint of the 21st century,

DNA is our weapon of last resort, ... And I'm at that point.

Joe Warren

DNA is incredibly helpful for us, ... It's about as a good as it gets for us.

We are waiting to see if the DNA matches. While we would like nothing more than to have her killer arrested, we must make sure we punish the right guy.

Richard Dawkins

At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.

Richard Dawkins

The messages that DNA molecules contain are all but eternal when seen against the time scale of individual lifetimes. The lifetimes of DNA messages give or take a few mutations are measured in units ranging from millions of years to hundreds of millions of years; or, in other words, ranging from 10,000 individual lifetimes to a trillion individual lifetimes. Each individual organism should be seen as a temporary vehicle, in which DNA messages spend a tiny fraction of their geological lifetimes.

Richard Dawkins

The thing that defines a species is that all members have the same addressing system for their DNA.

Richard Dawkins

DNA is ROM. It can be read millions of times over, but only written to once - when it is first assembled the birth of the cell in which it resides.

Russell Brand

Then, of course, through the umbilical link we all tumble backwards down the spiralling DNA staircase to one common ancestor in Africa, and before that some bunch of curious monkeys. Down and down we go unto the sea, unto the dust, the single cellular dust. What impulse drove one cell to become two? What yearning pulled the fish on to the land? What caused apes to walk upright? Some invisible magnetic pull. Is there a difference between attraction and intention? Where is evolution taking us?

Timothy Leary

The mission of DNA is to evolve nervous systems capable of deciphering the mission of DNA.

Roger Ebert

We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA.

Richard Dawkins

To invoke the origin of the DNA/protein machine by invoking a supernatural Designer is to explain precisely nothing - for it leaves unexplained the origin of the Designer.

Richard Dawkins

Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives.

Richard Dawkins

DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.

Vartan Gregorian

Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.

Thomas Keating

If you accept the belief that baptism incorporates us in the mystical body of Christ, into the divine DNA, then you might say that the Holy Spirit is present in each of us, and thus we have the capacity for the fullness of redemption, of transformation.

Elon Musk

Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.

Javier Bardem

I've always belonged to the street, and I always will. It's in my DNA.

Jason Reitman

I want my movies to be audience experiences. As much as I like Michael Haneke, I'm not going to make a Haneke film. That's just not in my DNA.

Erwin Chargaff

The results serve to disprove the tetranucleotide hypothesis. It is, however, noteworthy-whether this is more than accidental, cannot yet be said-that in all desoxypentose nucleic acids examined thus far the molar ratios of total purines to total pyrimidines, and also of adenine to thymine and of guanine to cytosine, were not far from 1.

Hugh Martin

In your cells right now, an enzyme is making a copy of your dna in less than two hours, right in the nucleus.

George Carlin

You know something I could really do without? The Space Shuttle. ... It's irresponsible. The last thing we should be doing is sending our grotesquely distorted DNA out into space.

Francis Collins

Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record, the study of DNA provides the strongest possible proof of our relatedness to all other living things.

Francis Crick

Finally one should add that in spite of the great complexity of protein synthesis and in spite of the considerable technical difficulties in synthesizing polynucleotides with defined sequences it is not unreasonable to hope that all these points will be clarified in the near future, and that the genetic code will be completely established on a sound experimental basis within a few years.

Francis Crick

One can say, looking at the papers in this symposium, that the elucidation of the genetic code is indeed a great achievement. It is, in a sense, the key to molecular biology because it shows how the great polymer languages, the nucleic acid language and the protein language, are linked together.

Francis Crick

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.