Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Ridley

Genes are biochemical recipes written in a four-letter alphabet called DNA.

Michael K. Williams

Music's been part of my entire life. It's in my DNA.

Neal Shusterman

A family is a collection of strangers trapped in a web of DNA and forced to cope.

The DNA test was useful for discounting these urban legends,

Hendrik Poinar

Nuclear DNA encodes all the proteins and enzymes that make you you, basically.

J. J. Johnson

The CSI factor has just killed us. People expect us to have this stuff turned out in a week, but a DNA test is not something you just throw in a microwave and do in 30 seconds.

Emmitt Smith

If you know anything about me, I've never been a trash-talker. That's not even part of my DNA.

Jacques Monod

The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its chemical identification by Avery (confirmed by Hershey), and the elucidation by Watson and Crick of the structural basis of its replicative invariance, are without any doubt the most important discoveries ever made in biology. To this must be added the theory of natural selection, whose certainty and full significance were established only by those later theories.

Kathy Reichs

You can't get DNA results in 53 minutes.

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.

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?

Roger Ebert

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

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.

Terry Tempest Williams

The choices and decisions we make in terms of how we use the land ultimately affect our very DNA. Environmental issues are life issues.

Lewis Thomas

We have come a long way on that old molecule DNA.

Lewis Thomas

All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Thinkers, makers and traders are the DNA of the world class company

Stella McCartney

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

Regina Brett

Family is more than DNA, more than who we used to be, more than we can imagine we will become.

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.

Timothy Leary

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

Tom Ford

In another life I would love to be a cosmetic surgeon because it’s architectural. You know, you are trying to figure out where the seams go. Can I do it in one piece like Halston? Can you formaldehyde DNA?

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.

Tarsem Singh

I'm very rarely interested in genres. As long as I feel I can put my DNA out there in the ideology, it works for me.

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.

Rupert Sheldrake

To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full picture of the world.