#dna

Imagine a life-form whose brainpower is to ours as ours is to a chimpanzee’s. To such a species, our highest mental achievements would be trivial. Their toddlers, instead of learning their ABCs on Sesame Street, would learn multivariable calculus on Boolean Boulevard. Our most complex theorems, our deepest philosophies, the cherished works of our most creative artists, would be projects their schoolkids bring home for Mom and Dad to display on the refrigerator door. ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

#difference #dna #intelligence #home

Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time. ↗

— David R. Brower

#cancer #dna #dreaming #how #keep

I do not want to die being known for doing baby mama DNA tests on my show. ↗

— Ricki Lake

#being #die #dna #doing #i

My parents were overprotective because you could get kidnapped and bombs were exploding in the streets. ↗

— Mia Maestro

#bombs #could #exploding #get #kidnapped

Generally, what people tend to underestimate is the cyborg nature of Groupon. We are a company that has the DNA of being both a technology company and a heavily operational company. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#both #company #dna #generally #heavily

With time, fashion has become part of my DNA. ↗

— Roberto Cavalli

#dna #fashion #part #time

Technology is neutral: It convicts and finds innocents. We must make it a regularized part of the system, giving defendants access to DNA testing and evidence whenever it might be relevant. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#convicts #defendants #dna #evidence #finds

O que é se entrega ao que está prestes a ser: tudo, tudo verte em uma arte fractal: pequeninos sonhos como as bases do meu dna. ↗

— Filipe Russo

#base #dna #entregar #estar #sonho

I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead. ↗

— John Fowles

#control #kidnap #beauty

Science has discovered that, like any work of literature, the human genome is a text in need of commentary, for what Eliot said of poetry is also true of DNA: 'all meanings depend on the key of interpretation.' What makes us human, and what makes each of us his or her own human, is not simply the genes that we have buried into our base pairs, but how our cells, in dialogue with our environment, feed back to our DNA, changing the way we read ourselves. Life is a dialectic. ↗

— Jonah Lehrer

#genes #genome #life #literature #science