Genetic Potential Quotes

There's this very interesting and complicated connection between our environment and our genes and the traits that come out of the environment plus genes. And there's huge potential. I mean we see amazing abilities. Marie Curie, Albert Einstein. All sorts of arts, and literature and so forth. These are not typical traits of everybody on earth.

My genetics are good, but they aren't crazy He-Man style.

parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius.

Your genetics is not your destiny.

I'm a genetic optimist.

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.

I've got some genetic gifts.

Denying a child even at birth an opportunity for the full expression of its innate genetic potential for physical and mental development is the cruellest form of inequity.

I really think people should live to be 100 years old pretty much disease-free. I think that's our genetic potential.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small.

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

I think you inherit most of your talent from your parents, although sometimes a fabulously talented singer grows out of the union of two tone-deaf people

It's often meaningless to talk about a genetic trait without also discussing the environment in which that trait appears. Sometimes, genes don't work at all until the environment awakens them.

All else being equal, the guy with the best genetics will have the best physique. But rarely are all things equal.

In the scale of life there is a gradual decline in physical variability, as the organism has gathered into itself resources for meeting the exigencies of changing external conditions; and that while in the mindless and motionless plant these resources are at a minimum, their maximum is reached in the mind of man, which, at length, rises to a level with the total order and powers of nature, and in its scientific comprehension of nature is a summary, an epitome of the world.

Genetically my legs are supposed to be huge. I can't really think about it, or I'll go crazy.

With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.

We all have genes that come from our ancestors that aren't used - they're not turned on. So we actually carry ancient genes with us. If you could figure out how to turn those on, you could resurrect ancient characteristics from our ancestors.

Genes don't mean necessarily that you have got a certain strand of gene that makes you particularly acceptable as a public official.

Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.

Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.

To give us room to explore the varieties of mind and body into which our genome can evolve, one planet is not enough.

I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes.