Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.

Richard Dawkins

If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.

William S. Burroughs

If the soft machine works, don't fix it. If it works, don't fix it.

William S. Burroughs

Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.

Woody Guthrie

All about a human being is, it's a great big hoping machine.

Woody Guthrie

This machine kills fascists.

Tupac Shakur

There's a machine that I have nothing to do with. It's called the "Tupac Machine."

Uma Thurman

My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.

Richard Dawkins

Human beings are just gene machines.

Craig Mello

RNA interference has proven to be a quite reliable mechanism for turning genes off in a whole variety of different plants and animals.

S. Jay Olshansky

In Genesis 6:3, it says man can live to be 120, but there is no scientific basis for it.

John Brackett

The genesis of this is to look at how schools are funded.

S. Hughes

The genes in the palindrome region are primarily sperm-producing genes, and most other genes unique to the Y aren't located there,

National Press

These genes are for risk, not for destiny,

Robert Waterston

They have similar genes in the worm and the only reason we really know about what those genes do in people is because they've been studied in worms.

John Noriega

It's genes. I think there's something in our genes that makes us want to give people something they need.

W. S. Gilbert

The list of genes that will come out of the genome project will be the tool that turns our questions into global ones.

Henry Paulson

I didn't get the charm gene.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Michio Kaku

Humans are natural-born scientists. When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.

Alejandro Thiermann

There is much talk about humans but not about birds.

Caroline Paul

I think as humans we do want to control our relationships, and you can't. It's probably better that you can't. That wouldn't be a real relationship, and we'd never learn and grow.

Mary Roach

I think by and large, humans prefer to think of themselves as minds from the neck up. We don't really like to think of ourselves as another animal, another digesting, excreting, mating, snoring, sleeping kind of sack of guts. I don't think we like that. I think we'd rather not be reminded of it.

Erich Roeckner

Humans have had a large one-of-a-kind influence on the climate.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans.

Paul Martin

Humans are really expensive, and they're really slow.

Henry Rollins

Humans are pretty crafty but will fold quickly in severe cold.