The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely near together on the genetic map.
Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.
I really think people should live to be 100 years old pretty much disease-free. I think that's our genetic potential.
Europe will not accept genetically modified foods. It doesn't make any difference in the final analysis what Brussels does, what Washington does, or what the World Trade Organization does.
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.
Superhero stories are kind of in my DNA from childhood on, so I think I'm genetically drawn to playing in the genre when the opportunity presents itself.
To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologise unreservedly.
I think my formative experiences were really in junior high, where at a typical public school we were doing little genetic experiments, very classic experiments.
You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew, something happened genetically that allowed me to become a lot more explosive.
It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code.
Coral is a very beautiful and unusual animal. Each coral head consists of thousand of individual polyps. These polyps are continually budding and branching into genetically identical neighbors.
TIVO was a big shift in how people watched TV, but everyone understood the concept of TV. No one really understands the concept of, well why would I want my genetic information?
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds.
Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization." -Vergere
Engineering is a jeans and hoodie culture, and sales is more formal.
My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.
Small businesses are really the engine in the economy.
So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.
I need to aspire to be a great CEO and not just a great product engineer.
