Quotes of: Genetic-engineering Keyword

People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?

Anne McCaffrey

Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.

Stephen Hawking

I wanted to be a genetic engineer. That was my goal in college. I wanted to figure out what the codon sequence was that causes replication in a cardio myopathic virus. That was my goal.

Ashton Kutcher

The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life. This project is ambitious but technically feasible. It is also instrumentally rational and ethically mandatory. The metabolic p...

David Pearce

The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm.

Jeremy Rifkin

Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic enginee...

Freeman Dyson

'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.

M. Night Shyamalan

Genetic engineering was messy. To force a sequence of foreign DNA into a plant, you couldn’t just snip the desired gene from the bacteria and sew it on to the plant’s DNA sequence like an old woman working on a quilt.

Kenneth Eade

Genetic algorithms (GAs) are defined as search procedures based on the mechanics of natural selection and genetics, and we think we know what innovation is - at least in some sort of qualitative way - but what does one have to do with the other?

The Design of Innovation: Lessons from and for Competent Genetic Algorithms

People often don't understand the engine that drives corruption. Particularly in India, they assume government equals corruption, private companies equal efficiency. But government officials are not genetically programmed to be corrupt. Corruption is...

The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy

...Once again confirms that there is no such thing as genetically pure classification into different races.

The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry

Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.

Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland

The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it's not interesting to blame genetics.

Moby

We all want our genetic information. Why would you not want genetic information?

Anne Wojcicki

Everybody is going to want to look at their genetics. You're going to want to get a genetic profile.

Gregory Stock

If what we learn is no more than what we expect to learn, then we have learned nothing at all.

The Engines of Our Ingenuity: An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture

Myths have a very long memory.

Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland

I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.

Kate Flannery

I'm so envious of that genetic wiring that immediately puts a smile on your face. My genetic wiring just puts creases in my eyebrows.

Chris Pine

We came to recognize that our initial thinking about the keys to educational reform was wrong. The key variables weren’t pedagogical. They weren’t financial. They weren’t curricular. They weren’t research. They weren’t any of the usual thin...

A Whole New Engineer: The Coming Revolution in Engineering Education

Engineers do engineering, i.e. they build bridges. So engineering needs engineers. The economy does NOT need economists. Economists do not make economy, but they try it and that is why we have so much problems with some financial models.

Steve Keen