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“Culture can be loosely defined as the body of non-genetic information which people pass from generation to generation.”
― Paul R. Ehrlich, The Population Bomb

“You are A PART of a greater whole. You are already greater than you could ever know. If you only knew your own greatness. If you only knew your magic. If you only knew that you are an expansive, limitless, beautiful being. You are your own individual, unique, flawed, messy, stubborn, flesh and blood, human part of it all, and it’s fucking mind blowing. There is stardust in your DNA. The love of God is flowing through your veins. You are important.”
― Rachel D. Greenwell, How To Wear A Crown: A Practical Guide To Knowing Your Worth

“Be careful, get comfortable, don't make any waves,' whispers the DNA. Conversely, the yearning for freedom, the risky belief that there is nothing to lose and nothing to gain, is also in our DNA. But it's of much more recent evolutionary origin ... It has arisen during the paste couple of million years, during the rapid increase in brain size and intellectual capacity associated with our becoming human. But the desire for security, the will to survive, is of much greater antiquity. For the present, the conflicting yearnings in the DNA generate a basic paradox that in turn generates the character â€� nothing if not contradictory â€� of man. To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox? But, since the genetic bent for freedom is comparatively recent, it may represent an evolutionary trend. We may yet outgrow our overriding obsession to survive. That's why I encourage everyone to take chances, to court danger, to welcome anxiety, to flaunt insecurity, to rock every boat and always cut against the grain. By pushing it, goosing it along whenever possible, we may speed up the process, the process by which the need for playfulness and liberty becomes stronger than the need for comfort and security. Then the paradox ... holding the show together may lose its equilibrium.”
― Tom Robbins

“Human rulers get poisoned or decapitated or simply voted out of office all the time, as our set of personal desires, our chimpanzee DNA, rears its individualistic head.”
― Edward Slingerland, Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization

“She had heard of the genetic code that could shape an eye or hand from passing proteins. Deoxyribonucleic acid. It contained the entire set of instructions for constructing a respiratory system and a digestive one, as well as the grip of an infant's hand. Chess was like that. The geometry of a position could be read and reread and not exhausted of possibility. You saw deeply into the layer of it, but there was another layer beyond that, and another, and another.”
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

“Yes. Neil Diamond had literally given her the shirt off his back. Why do these people mean so much to me? Because people inspire people. And over the years, they've all become a part of my DNA. In some way I've been shaped by each and every note I've heard them play. Memories have been painted in my mind with their voices as the frame.”
― David grohl, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

“People thought they could get away with everything, she saysâ€� and indeed, they did until genetic genealogy came along. In Moore's view, DNA is an equalizer, a revelatory force with the power to right past wrongs.”
― Libby Copeland, The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Uncovering Secrets, Reuniting Relatives, and Upending Who We Are

“These potential advantages of DNA computing over the traditional approach and the seminal experimental work of Adleman, demonstrating the practical in vitro implementation of a DNA algorithm for solving an instance of the Hamiltonian path problem, caused a strong increase of interest in DNA computing over the past years. Although the set of “bio-operationsâ€� that can be executed on DNA strands in a laboratory (including operators such as synthesizing, mixing, annealing, melting, amplifying, separating, extracting, cutting, and ligating DNA strands) seems fundamentally different from traditional programming languages, theoretical work on the computational power of various models of DNA computing demonstrates that certain subsets of these operators are computationally complete. In other words, everything that is Turing-computable can also be computed by these DNA models of computation. Furthermore, it has also been shown that universal systems exist, so that the programmable DNA computer is theoretically possible.
The algorithms for DNA computing that have been presented in the literature use an approach that will not work for NP-complete problems of realistic size, because these algorithms are all based on extracting an existing solution from a sufficiently large initial population of solutions. Although a huge number (â‰� 1012) of DNA molecules (i.e., potential solutions to a given problem) can be manipulated in parallel, this so-called filtering approach (i.e., generate and test) quickly becomes infeasible as problem sizes grow (e.g., a 500-node instance of the traveling salesman problem has > 101000 potential solutions).”
― Laura F. Landweber, Evolution as Computation

“Ever twisting, turning, and at war with itself and external invaders, DNA provides the fuel for evolution’s changes. Ten percent of our genome is made up of ancient viruses, and at least another 60 percent consists of repeated elements made by jumping genes gone wild. Only 2 percent is made up of our own genes. With cells and genetic material of different species merging and genes continually duplicating and repurposing, life’s history flows more like a braided and meandering river than a straight channel.”
― Neil Shubin, Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA

“We change our DNA through the intoned word.”
― Laurence Galian, 666: Connection with Crowley

“DNA opens an even more mysterious door to understanding the human condition: all of our ancestors live within each one of us whether we are aware of it or not.”
― Laurence Overmire, The One Idea That Saves The World: A Message of Hope in a Time of Crisis

“Celio diventò figlio dell'intero paese. Ebbe padri, madri, sorelle, fratelli, nonni e zii. Più di così che pretendeva un bambino? Voglio pensare che forse, proprio per questo eccesso d'affetti, voleva bene a tutti senza affezionarsi a nessuno. Fu riconoscente ai paesani tenendoli a distanza. Erano tanti i debiti contratti con quella gente, meglio un grazie generale che salamelecchi privati. Quando beveva brindava alla comunità. Alzava il calice esclamando: «A dut Nert».”
― Mauro Corona, L'ultimo sorso. Vita di Celio

“I've been waiting a long time for this. Hi ... I'm your Aunt Cassie.”
― Craig Harris, Memoirs of an Adoptee: One person's DNA discoveries, reflections and insights

“You are the foods you consume AND the information that you digest.”
― Michael Corthell

“In every human being genomes tell the story of our evolution, written in the language of DNA. The narrative is unmistakable and ever changing.”
― Michael Corthell

“And it occurred to me that it had been, all along, about copies, nothing else. All of it, this entire flaming universe was about copying itself before it died, that’s all it was. And we were there in the middle of it, as blind to the machinery inside of us as we were deaf to the machinery of galaxies swirling in circles above us.”
― Susan Neville, The Town of Whispering Dolls: Stories

“There are so many cells in your body that your entire collection of DNA would be about twice the diameter of the solar system.”
― Clegg Brian, Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe

“We are in a period of disruptive change. Darwin points out that disruptive change requires an organism to evolve just to survive; but also enables opportunities to become a higher life form. Survival isn't good enough, change your DNA, become that higher life form.”
― Tom Golway

“Whoever said you had to share DNA with a person for them to be family had rocks for brains [...]”
― Carolyn Brown, The Daydream Cabin

“She can't help. No one can. I rest my head in my hands and let the flood of hot angry tears fall. I can't even begin to wrap my head around the enormity of it all. She lied to me, probably lied to my dad too.
The hole in my heart doubles in size like I'm losing him all over again.....Although it seems he was never mine to lose.”
― Alison Hammer, Little Pieces of Me

“A true definition of equality is the 'Carbon Sugars' that bind DNA together within every Carbon lifeform on Earth. DNA would not exist without its sugar-phosphate backbone.”
― Kim Perrier

“In the heart of the seed is the picture of the tree. Yet the picture requires the death of the seed.”
― Eche Agubata

“A 2014 study by the University of Colorado found we select our partners with very similar DNA to our own, which is called “genetic assertive mating.â€� According to the study, married couples share far similar DNA than two random strangers on the street.”
― Cary G. Weldy, The Power of Tattoos: Twelve Hidden Energy Secrets of Body Art Every Tattoo Enthusiast Should Know

“We do DNA sequencing to work out family ties. If we are to understand past lives and reincarnation then we must also map brain activity. This would need to be done using a set of standard tests which would include current affairs and musical stimuli from certain eras. I believe that music would be the best bet because it would use a familiar brain pattern. If you use both then we have a way to either confirm reincarnation and/or time between life, death and life again. The DNA would help narrow the search, but as we all know hereditary factors are bias towards family members. Thoughts, however are energy and they may still be embedded in the brain to some degrees. This is why children can remember things that they don't even know.
The downside is that we would need to DNA sequence everyone and also give them a brain scan to collate results. A big task and the question would be how big a sample would we need to make it viable? And would mankind be ready to believe in something that they would be willing to debunk quite easily?”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“here the recommended management strategy is to keep the wolves looking like wolves. To Boitani, the wolves' aesthetics and the preservation of their ecological niche are the object; the preservation of purely 'wild' DNA and the freedom of individual wolves, less so.”
― Emma Marris, Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

“So, Rosalind became a symbol, first of an argumentative swot, then of a downtrodden woman scientist, and finally of a triumphant heroine in a man's world. She was none of these things and would have hated all of them. She was simply a very good scientist with an ambition, as she told Colin from her hospital bed, to be a Fellow of the Royal Society before she was 40. But she died at thirty-seven.”
― Jenifer Glynn, My Sister Rosalind Franklin

“DNA floats in the carbon dioxide of life.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Does DNA feel the pain of cremation?”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“some of these genetic ancestry tests which proport to find race in your genes but, in fact, have to presume that race already lives in your genes in order to then find it there. If you understand race to be something historically constructed, then it doesn’t live in your genes.

(4/10/2020 on Vocal Fries podcast)”
― Jonathan Rosa

“Closely allied with the contribution of chemists to the alleviation of disease is their involvement at a molecular level. Biology became chemistry half a century ago when the structure of DNA was discovered (in 1953). Molecular biology, which in large measure has sprung from that discovery, is chemistry applied to the functioning of organisms. Chemists, often disguised as molecular biologists, have opened the door to understanding life and its principal characteristic, inheritance, at a most fundamental level, and have thereby opened up great regions of the molecular world to rational investigation. They have also transformed forensic medicine, brought criminals to justice, and transformed anthropology.”
― Peter Atkins, Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction