Famous Quotes & Sayings

There is a fingerprint and DNA match and an eyewitness has identified this individual,

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.

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?

Richard Dawkins

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

If the person who is responsible for doing this is watching, it is only going to take the smallest piece of evidence. One little piece of evidence. DNA is not visible to the naked eye and other pieces of evidence are not visible to the naked eye. And, when you walk and you move throughout the planet, you leave traces of yourself everywhere you go.

The DNA test was useful for discounting these urban legends,

Emmitt Smith

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

Oliver Stone

Many films are forgotten and deserve to be, but others glom onto the DNA and they keep a share of the collective consciousness. It's a profound question: What are we here for? What is the purpose, the sum effect of our work?

Nothing is infallible, but it's much more robust today. When performed to specifications, DNA test results are 100 percent accurate.

Kamala Harris

With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.

Julian Assange

I want to set up a new standard: ‘scientific journalism.’ If you publish a paper on DNA, you are required, by all the good biological journals, to submit the data that has informed your research—the idea being that people will replicate it, check it, verify it. So this is something that needs to be done for journalism as well. There is an immediate power imbalance, in that readers are unable to verify what they are being told, and that leads to abuse.

Nathan Myhrvold

A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.

Patricia Arquette

I hope some of your DNA transferred to me.

Lea Salonga

It's in your DNA to be a Filipino; how can you just turn your back on it?

Kenneth R. Miller

Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.

Arthur Caplan

A moral principle in genetic testing is that it should always be done with the consent of the individual. No one wants someone snooping into his DNA.

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.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.

Lisa Bonet

I'm a shy person. I don't know if it's in my DNA to share with the world.

Linus Pauling

[Professor Pauling] confesses that he had harboured the feeling that sooner or later he would be the one to get the DNA structure; and although he was pleased with the double-helix, he 'rather wished the idea had been his'.

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.

Joseph Wambaugh

The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.

Joe Bastianich

There are certain things that make restaurants work and a certain kind of DNA that people who excel in restaurants need. But it's a lot like life, in the sense that you get out of it what you put into it.

John Guare

There's no American playwright after 1945 who wasn't profoundly affected - who didn't have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams.

Joe Klein

Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.

I don't want to be too 'classic' because it's not in the DNA of Gucci. You need to be a little bit provocative.

Frank Macfarlane Burnet

I can see no practical application of molecular biology to human affairs... DNA is a tangled mass of linear molecules in which the informational content is quite inaccessible.

Arthur Kornberg

Analysis of the composition of samples of DNA from a great variety of sources and by many investigators revealed the remarkable fact that the purine content always equals the pyrimidine content.

Jack Valenti

They are sprung from the same DNA , for God's sake. They are always onstage. They are always performing.

Chris Stringer

There's about 1,000 times more mitochondrial DNA than nuclear DNA in our cells, so it's much easier to pick up,