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“Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly.”
Conan O'Brien
“The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.”
David Gerrold
“Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones.”
Thomas E. Lovejoy
“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
“The apparent antiquity of the gene responsible for red hair among Celtic peoples suggests that it may have arisen through interbreeding between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, a genetics team in Oxford, England, suggested last month”
Robert Lee Hotz
“[on his mother] So at 96 I'm thanking her for her genes.”
Clint Eastwood
“Gene sometimes... well, he has his dream list.”
Paul Stanley
“In simple terms, the data shows that in mammals each individual gene uses multiple different mechanisms to produce different forms of protein. In a sense, each 'gene' is actually multiple different genes,”
David Hume
“I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse.”
Robin Cousins
“When I was a kid, I found out about Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent through the Beatles and the Stones doing covers of rockabilly songs,”
Brian Setzer