Genetic Legacy Quotes

I would love to have children, yes. Maybe even adopt them. I'm not sure that I should pass on my genes.

The Dominican Republic says 'We're black behind the ears.' And in Mexico, 'there's a black grandma in the closet.' They know, they've just been intermarrying for a long time. But if we did the DNA of everyone in Mexico a whole lot of people would have a whole lot of black in them.

How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or mother's life?

It would be pleasant to believe that some of Lincoln's DNA is actively swimming around in somebody's soup, but all the evidence is against it. And of course, there's always the risk that what we might get would be more Robert Todd Lincoln than Abraham Lincoln.

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

I look like my mother but behave like my father.

What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.

Let's set the existence-of-God issue aside for a later volume, and just stipulate that in some way, self-replicating organisms came into existence on this planet and immediately began trying to get rid of each other, either by spamming their environments with rough copies of themselves, or by more direct means which hardly need to be belabored. Most of them failed, and their genetic legacy was erased from the universe forever, but a few found some way to survive and to propagate.

I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world that have disease from their parents, that have no chance to be a human being, practically. Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things just marked when they're born. That to me is the greatest sin - that people can - can commit.

In courtship, who wins and who loses will determine who passes on their DNA to tomorrow.

Aging followed by death is the price we pay for the immortality of our genes. You find this information soul-killing; I find it thrilling, liberating.

Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.

I have my mother's heart and father's face.

Has it ever occurred to you how lucky you are to be alive? More than 99 percent of all the creatures that have ever lived have died without progeny, but not a single one of your ancestors falls into that group! ... Not a single one of your ancestors, all the way back to the bacteria, succumbed to predation before reproducing, or lost out in the competition for a mate.

No matter how much knowledge and wisdom you acquire during your life, not one jot will be passed on to your children by genetic means. Each new generation starts from scratch.

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

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

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

A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.

it was all your genes that made us geniuses, mom. said peter. we sure didn't get any from dad. i heard that. father said, not looking up from the news that was being displayed on the table while he ate it would've been wasted if you hadn't

For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.

Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.

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

I have Scottish genes: my grandfather was Scottish. My father was a voracious drinker. So, drinking came naturally to me.

I am not myself, I am the result of all my ancestors.