Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mark Bradford

Autopsies will take several days, and if DNA is required, it will even take longer than that.

Bill Thomas

Our experts tell us that being gang-raped by three men would leave DNA material to be examined.

When we had highly sensitive information, the DNA on the dress, that was held within our office and the FBI. There was no dissemination of that information.

Carl Zimmer

Borna virus is not a retrovirus. It doesn't actually insert its own genes into our cells. What it does is just hangs out near our DNA and uses some of the molecular machinery to copy itself.

Brendan Gleeson

You work for it. You don't have to massage it, so that it fits into the way it has to be. He's just too vigorous a writer and the dialogue is too sparking to do anything other than inhabit it and give it as much truth as you can. You just try to make it part of your DNA. That's what the challenge is, really.

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.

Creed Bratton

I had always planned to be an actor, and the music was just in my DNA, it's always been.

Annalee Newitz

One reason that we're so adaptable is that humans are excellent tool users and homebuilders. When our environment doesn't provide us with something that we need, we try to make it ourselves out of whatever is available, whether that's rock or wood or ore or DNA.

Andrea Dworkin

Pornography incarnates male supremacy. It is the DNA of male dominance. Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every highway and byway of sexual exploitation, is encoded in it.

Douglas Adams

I am terribly proud of-I was born in Cambridge in 1952 and my initials are DNA!

Timothy Leary

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

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.