Allen C. Guelzo Quotes

I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.

Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.

On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.

The origin of each of us stems from codes of genetic inheritance.

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

If we think of our chromosomes - they carry our genetic material - as being like shoelaces, I work on the plastic tips at the end that protect them.

I'm really, really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes.

My dad has blond hair, my grandmother has blue eyes. My daughter has blue eyes and blond hair. So it is pretty funny to me that I'm so heavily identified as an Asian person.

I have inherited pace from my dad, and in terms of the physical side with the balance, I have inherited that from my mum.

Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he was forty, fat and shabby and worked for the local council. Curiously enough, though he didn't know it, he was also a direct male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, though intervening generations and racial mixing had so juggled his genes that he had no discernible Mongoloid characteristics, and the only vestiges left in Mr L Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.

I believe that just as everyone inherits a particular form so does he inherit the particular characteristics and qualities of his progenitors, and to make this admission is to conserve one's energy.

Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.

I am a combination of my entire family.

We are, in a way, temporary ambulatory repositories for our nucleic acids. This does not deny our humanity; it does not prevent us from pursuing the good, the true and the beautiful. But it would be a great mistake to ignore where we have come from in our attempt to determine where we are going.

What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.

I look like my mother but behave like my father.

The nice thing about genetics is, I can see my kids doing what I used to do, which is inhaling books like breathing.

When I was 16, my dad took me to a DNA conference at the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco, California, and I was captivated by this way of looking at biology and by the discussions of bits of nucleic acid that could make us sick.

My father had the curved feet, my mother the legs, so I am a bit of both.

The Russell side of my family is a clan with some serious genetics.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can't do anything about them.

There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.

DNA is ROM. It can be read millions of times over, but only written to once - when it is first assembled the birth of the cell in which it resides.