We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000. – Iain McGilchrist
We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations. – Craig Venter
As humans, we have evolved to compete… it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition. – Peter Diamandis
First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes. – Daniel Nathans
Most groups patent ways of using genetic discoveries as part of non-obvious diagnostic and therapeutic protocols and slightly or greatly altered genes. – George M. Church
We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment – by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve. – Michel Onfray
In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution. – Nina Fedoroff
Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes. – Jonathan Katz
Genes don’t mean necessarily that you have got a certain strand of gene that makes you particularly acceptable as a public official. – Kenneth Langone
Genes that underlie the capacity to receive, use and transmit information are the evolving properties. – Peter R. Grant
I was very skinny, but that was just my natural build. I always ate sensibly – being thin was in my genes. – Twiggy
But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo. – Steven Pinker
We haven’t been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal. – Walter Gilbert
Walt Disney had a nuclear imagination before the advent of nuclear, some comprehension of apocalypse and rapture deep in his genes. – Steve Erickson
We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don’t know to what extent this happens. – Walter Gilbert