If you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight hundred and eighty-two percent.
I've always admired Gene Hackman, Jack Lemmon, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck. I'm showing my age here.
Hurry up Gene, I got a date tonight.
I believe that the Belgians do possess some surrealistic gene.
The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.
I don't think anything I could ever do could make Gene Kelly look better than he was.
Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its philosophy, its teachings remain in us. They rule our thinking, our conduct, our attitude to others. The situation is a demonic paradox: we have toppled the system but we still carry its genes.
I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes.
Human beings are just gene machines.
The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
What I imagined doesn't require anti-gravity beams or anything too spectacular, just advances in analysing different genes, finding out what they can do and recombining them.
While we can't turn off the aging gene, we do go to a lot of extremes to stay young, I've noticed.
If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.
The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would not have morals or ethics without religion is extraordinary. Animals in nature seem to behave in moral ways without organized religion.
Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.
In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were chimpanzees.
All of the rocky and metallic material we stand on, the iron in our blood, the calcium in our teeth, the carbon in our genes were produced billions of years ago in the interior of a red giant star. We are made of star stuff.
Heritability pertains to the entirety of the genome, not to a single gene.
I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.