#genetic

A four-letter alphabet called DNA. ↗

— Matt Ridley

#genetics #heredity #nature

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#genetic #hopeless #i #mother #pollyanna

The realization, early in high school, that a particle behaved differently if observed or left alone. ↗

— Lara Santoro

#genetics #love #particle #science #love

I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begin to try to find a bacteriophage system which we might use to solve the genetic code. ↗

— Sydney Brenner

#begin #code #department #find #genetic

It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code. ↗

— Francis Crick

#across #appear #code #come #conclusion

If people lived to be a thousand years old, there’d be extreme inequality, based not on class like now, but on genetics. Think how far behind unmotivated and lazy people lag now after only 65 years on earth, and then multiply that by 15.
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— Jarod Kintz

#class #classism #earth #genetics #inequality

I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that genetics, upbringing, choice, social conditioning and environment play a major part in which way we sway. ↗

— Kathy Najimy

#being #believe #choice #conditioning #environment

Does mother know you’ve done your best for her? Half her genes are yours. But if you’re an average-sized family, her entire fortune might not be. ↗

— Bauvard

#genetics #humor #inheritence #motherly-love #family

I’ve always been suspicious of the assumption that great intelligence would be an unqualified benefit— that the madness that so often accompanies it can be cavalierly dismissed. So I asked the question: Suppose there were an entire subpopulation of extreme geniuses, well beyond anything that would occur naturally. What would that really look like? ↗

— Andrew M. Ryan

#nihilism #psychological-thriller #intelligence

We are what we adapt to. ↗

— Carter Stroud

#genetics #money