Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hendrik Poinar

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

Kathy Reichs

You can't get DNA results in 53 minutes.

Max Lucado

Don't see yourself as a product of your parents DNA, but rather as a brand new idea from heaven.

Maurice Wilkins

DNA is like Midas's gold, everyone who touches it goes mad.

Matt Ridley

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

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.

Neal Shusterman

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

John Guare

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

Joseph Wambaugh

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

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'.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Timothy Leary

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

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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

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.

Stella McCartney

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

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.

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?

Vartan Gregorian

Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.

Roger Ebert

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