“It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.”
Lewis Thomas
“I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.”
Abraham Lincoln
“And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“Family is created to grow an overman, not to continue the progeny; progeny is continued by overman anyway.”
Ilkin Santak
“The way we speak of our parents teaches our children the way they will speak of us to our grandchildren.”
Gene Crawford
“Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.”
Walter Gilbert
“When we looked at gene expression, we found fairly small changes in 65 million years of the macaque, orangutan, and chimpanzee evolution.”
Yoav Gilad
