#genes

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#also #beauty #element #half #imagination

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#blood #children #earth #egyptians #expecting

With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them. ↗

— Walter Lang

#created #eve #genes #genetics #god

If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis. ↗

— Eric Liu

#barack #barack obama #call #carried #certainly

I was always thin. I guess I have good genes, so I never worried too much about my weight. ↗

— Martina McBride

#always #genes #good #guess #i

To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy. ↗

— Trevor McDonald

#certain #england #fallacy #feel #living

And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance. ↗

— Daniel Nathans

#genes #great #human #identifying #medical

But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#even #genes #most #possibility #reflect

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#deeper #discover #i #i think #meanings

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#genes #responsibility #talent