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“Modesty is a virtue,” he would later write, “yet one gets further without it.”
― The Gene: An Intimate History
― The Gene: An Intimate History
“Our ability to read out this sequence of our own genome has the makings of a philosophical paradox. Can an intelligent being comprehend the instructions to make itself? —John Sulston Scholars”
― The Gene: An Intimate History
― The Gene: An Intimate History
“If we define "beauty" as having blue eyes (and only blue eyes), then we will, indeed, find a "gene for beauty." If we define "intelligence" as the performance on only one kind of test, then we will, indeed, find a "gene for intelligence." The genome is only a mirror for the breadth or narrowness of human imagination.”
― The Gene: An Intimate History
― The Gene: An Intimate History
“Cancer, perhaps, is an ultimate perversion of genetics—a genome that becomes pathologically obsessed with replicating itself. The”
― The Gene: An Intimate History
― The Gene: An Intimate History
“Three profoundly destabilizing scientific ideas ricochet through the twentieth century, trisecting it into three unequal parts: the atom, the byte, the gene.”
― The Gene: An Intimate History
― The Gene: An Intimate History
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