“ The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor. ”
- Alvin Toffler- Copy
- 315
“ Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy. ”
- Nick Nolte- Copy
- 2K
“ I thank my mother. It's the genes. I don't think too much about it. ”
- Elle MacPherson- Copy
- 787
“ 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- Copy
- 280
“ I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth. ”
- Brad Pitt- Copy
- 3.5K
“ I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift. ”
- Mavis Gallant- Copy
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“ Techniques such as genetic engineering, psychoactive drugs and electronic control of the brain make possible a transformation of the species into docile, fully-obedient, 'safe' organisms. ”
- William Bainbridge- Copy
- 566
“ A full-grown manatee, which can weigh more than 1,000 pounds, looks like the result of a genetic experiment involving a walrus and the Goodyear Blimp. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
- 168
“ Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences. ”
- Gerald Vizenor- Copy
- 1.1K
“ If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality. ”
- Johnnetta Betsch Cole- Copy
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“ I don't have a lot of respect for talent; talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts. ”
- Martin Ritt- Copy
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“ Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories? ”
- B. F. Skinner- Copy
- 1.9K
“ There is a hereditary selective advantage to membership in a powerful group united by devout belief and purpose. Even when individuals subordinate themselves and risk death in common cause, their genes are more likely to be transmitted to the next generation than are those of competing groups who lack equivalent resolve. ”
- Edward O. Wilson- Copy
- 472
“ The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm. ”
- Jeremy Rifkin- Copy
- 3.3K
“ I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump. ”
- Willem Dafoe- Copy
- 225
“ Our genetic heritage endows each of us with a series of emotional set-points that determines our temperament. But the brain circuitry involved is extraordinarily malleable; temperament is not destiny. ”
- Daniel Goleman- Copy
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“ The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. ”
- Lewis Thomas- Copy
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