Anne Wojcicki Quotes

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

With my background and genetic makeup,buddy, you're lucky I'm as normal as I am. (Katra Agrotera)

My mantra: Brainless exercise is a lost opportunity for improvement.

Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.

I didn't exercise. I worked all the time, went home and went to bed.

How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.

Variety is what I would recommend: As variety is the spice of life in food, so it is in exercise. Change it up. But most of all, don't overdo it.

When it comes to exercise, I don't like anything that's too serious.

Genes can't possibly explain all of what makes us what we are.

You know, there's a tremendous amount of genetic propensity not necessarily for what TV shows you like but for literally how you view the world, how you react to things, how things touch you and how things move you.

One of the things about genetics that has become clearer as we've done genomes - as we've worked our way through the evolutionary tree, including humans - is that we're probably much more genetic animals than we want to confess we are.

Even with seemingly simple things like eye color, you can't tell from my genetic code whether I have blue eyes or not. So it's naive to think that complex human behaviors, like risk-seeking, are driven by changes in one or two genes.

I actually was worried about the pounding, but I actually love running more than working out on the elliptical. Now if I get on the elliptical, I feel like I'm trapped.

Heritability pertains to the entirety of the genome, not to a single gene.

A few small changes in your DNA can turn your eyes blue, make you lactose intolerant or put some curl in your hair.

While nobody has identified any gene for religion, there are certainly some candidate genes that may influence human personality and confer a tendency to religious feelings. Some of the genes likely to be involved are those which control levels of different chemicals called neurotransmitters in the brain.

It looks like a very interesting exercise, but what is the little white ball for.

If you're not a workout person, go there 75 percent fast asleep. Anybody who has ever been in one of my workout classes knows I'm there practically in my pajamas!

Genes are not about inevitabilities; they're about potentials and vulnerabilities.

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

I think we all have a slightly gay gene inside us, don't we? It might be 0.00001 per cent as mine is, or one per cent as yours is.

We don't get to pick the genes we want. There's room in this world for beauty to be diverse.

Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.

Man is the control experiment of heredity and environment; and since his heredity controls him, he tries to control his environment.

All that causes one man to differ from another is a very slight thing. What is it that is the origin of beauty or ugliness, health or weakness, ability or stupidity? A slight difference in the organs, a little more or a little less bile. Yet this more or less is of infinite importance to men; and when they think otherwise they are mistaken.