Dna quotes
379 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"We wish to discuss a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid. D.N.A. This structure has novel features which are of considerable biologic interest."
"Conclusion: Big helix in several chains, phosphates on outside, phosphate-phosphate inter-helical bonds disrupted by water. Phosphate links available to proteins."
"The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music."
"There's white racist DNA running through the synapses of his or her brain tissue. They will kill their own kind, defend the enemies of their kind or anyone who is perceived to be the enemy of the milky white way of life."
"The results suggest a helical structure which must be very closely packed containing probably 2, 3 or 4 coaxial nucleic acid chains per helical unit and having the phosphate groups near the outside."
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"These are very difficult times for new artists. Back in the day, a hit song could really seep into a person's DNA with radio and MTV. A hit today is not the same as a hit twenty years ago. Now there is so much competition, it is very hard to reach the people. The music scene is so overly saturated. There are no gatekeepers like there used to be."
"Family is not always the people with whom you share DNA. Sometimes, family is the person who fights the hardest for your happiness."
"I don't want to be too 'classic' because it's not in the DNA of Gucci. You need to be a little bit provocative."
"We try to make earth-friendly decisions whenever we can, as it's part of our brand DNA."
"When you're born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God's terms."
"In your cells right now, an enzyme is making a copy of your dna in less than two hours, right in the nucleus."
"If you know anything about me, I've never been a trash-talker. That's not even part of my DNA."
"With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code."
"We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party."
"We have the DNA of our Lord Jesus Christ."
"The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA."
"Some racists still reject the plain testimony written in the DNA that all the races are not only human but nearly indistinguishable. . . ."
"It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood."
"My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA."
"Your sexual attributes are simply chemistry and setups within your DNA. They are given by agreement as gifts for you to experience in this life."
"DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush."
"Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all."
"There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy."
"DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created."
"Consistency is the DNA of mastery"
