John Parrington > Quotes

“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.”
― John Parrington, The Deeper Genome: Why There Is More to the Human Genome Than Meets the Eye

“What is a scientist after all? It is a curious person looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what’s going on.”
― John Parrington, The Deeper Genome: Why There Is More to the Human Genome Than Meets the Eye

“This makes the genome exquisitely sensitive to signals from the environment, and challenges the idea that life is merely a one-way flow of information from DNA to organism.”
― John Parrington, The Deeper Genome: Why There Is More to the Human Genome Than Meets the Eye

“being a linear code, the genome only really makes sense as a 3D entity.37 Moreover, this 3D entity dynamically changes in response to signals originating both from within, and outside, the cell.”
― John Parrington, The Deeper Genome: Why There Is More to the Human Genome Than Meets the Eye

“conundrums in biology: this is the fact that our genes, which supposedly define us as a species, but also distinguish you or I or anyone else on the planet from each other, make up only 2 per cent of our DNA. The other 98 per cent had been written off as ‘junk’;”
― John Parrington, The Deeper Genome: Why There Is More to the Human Genome Than Meets the Eye

“we can now observe changes in the activity of the genome as a whole.35 This analysis can extend both to a whole organ like the human brain, but also allows us to study how genes are switched on”
― John Parrington, The Deeper Genome: Why There Is More to the Human Genome Than Meets the Eye