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Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “The double-helix has solved all three of the major challenges of genetic physiology using ingenious variations on the same theme. Mirror-image chemicals are used to generate mirror-image chemicals, reflections used to reconstruct the orginal. Pairs used to maintain the fidelity and fixity of information. “Monet is but an eye,” Cezanne once said of his friend, “but, God, what an eye.” DNA, by the same logic, is but a chemical-but, God, what a chemical.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “Indeed, the mean height of the sons of exceptionally tall fathers tended to be slightly lower than the father’s height-and closer to the population’s average-as if an invisible force were always dragging extreme features toward the center. This discovery-called regression to the mean-would have a powerful effect on the science measurement and the concept of variance. It would be Galton’s most important contribution to statistics.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “I had a novice’s hunger for history, but also a novice’s inability to envision it.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “My father walked around the house with me. It was smaller than I had expected – as places reconstructed from borrowed memories inevitably are – but also duller and dustier. Memories sharpen the past; it is reality that decays.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “We lost a chromosome, but gained a thumb.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “Like musicians, like mathematicians – like elite athletes – scientists peak early and dwindle fast.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “They were self-appointed jesters in a court of fools. The.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in the universe,” James Gleick wrote.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “In 1905, still struggling for an alternative, Bateson coined a word of his own. Genetics, he called it: the study of heredity and variation-the word ultimately derived from the Greek genno, “to give birth.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “Every genetic “illness” is a mismatch between an organism’s genome and its environment.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “Never before in history, and never with such insidiousness, had genes been so effortlessly conflated with identity, identity with defectiveness, and defectiveness with extermination.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “It is the impulse of science to try to understand nature, and the impulse of technology to try to manipulate it. Recombinant DNA had pushed genetics from the realm of science into the realm of technology.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “Evolution can craft perfectly adapted organisms, but not in an intentional manner: it is not just a “blind watchmaker”, but also a forgetful one. Its sole driver is survival and selection; its only memory is mutation.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “An upright organism with opposable thumbs is thus built from a script, but built to go off script. We call one such unique variant of one such organism a “self.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “There is no history; there is only biography,” Emerson once wrote.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “With DNA as with words, the sequence carries the meaning. Dissolve DNA into its constituent bases, and it turns into a primordial four-letter alphabet soup.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “Incomplete penetrance” meant that even if a mutation was present in the genome, its capacity to penetrate into a physical or morphological feature was not always complete.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “There was, perhaps, no more bizarre illustration of the conflation between cleansing and racial cleansing than a law that barred Jews from employing “German maids” in their houses.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “But while Darwin’s encounters with the “natives” of South America in the 1830s had strengthened his belief in the common ancestry of humans, Galton only saw difference: “I saw enough of savage races to give me material to think about all the rest of my life.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “But it is more illuminating to write the history of technology through transitions: linear motion to circular motion; visual space to subvisual space; motion on land to motion in air; physical connectivity to virtual connectivity.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “More than the enormity of gene numbers, the diversity of gene types, or the originality of gene function, it is the ingenuity of our genome that is the secret to our complexity.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers – passageways – for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes don’t think about what constitutes good or evil. They don’t care whether we are happy or unhappy. We’re just means to an end for them. The only thing they think about is what is most efficient for them. – Haruki Murakami, 1Q84.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “Dimly, as if through a veil, geneticists were beginning to visualize patterns and themes: threads, strings, maps, crossings, broken and unbroken lines, chromosomes that carried information in a coded and compressed form. But no one had seen a gene in action or knew its material essence. The central quest of the study of heredity seemed like an object perceived only through its shadows, tantalizingly invisible to science.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “Life’s definition, as it stands now, is akin to a menu. It is not one thing but a series of things, a set of behaviors, a series of processes, not a single property. To be living, an organism must have the capacity to reproduce, to grow, to metabolize, to adapt to stimuli, and to maintain its internal milieu.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “Without equality, he argued, eugenics would degenerate into yet another mechanism by which the powerful could control the weak.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “Without this variation – without deep genetic diversity – an organism might ultimately lose its capacity to evolve.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “Junk science props up totalitarian regimes. And totalitarian regimes produce junk science.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “To see,” the poet Paul Valery once wrote, “is to forget the name of the things that one sees.” To see DNA is to forget its name or its chemical formula. Like the simplest of human tools-hammer, scythe, bellows, ladder, scissors-the function of the molecule can be entirely comprehended from its structure. To “see” DNA is to immediately perceive its function as a repository of information. The most important molecule in biology needs no name to be understood.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “The mother and the father were two independent sides and the child was the third – the biological hypotenuse to the parents’ two lines.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “Illness is used to define wellness. Abnormalcy marks the boundaries of normalcy. Deviance demarcates the limits of conformity.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “The capacity to organise information or to perform goal-oriented tasks collapsed, and new words, fears, and anxieties emerged, as if from the netherworlds of the mind. In the end, all organized thinking began to crumble, entrapping the schizophrenic within a maze of mental rubble.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “The experiments progress slowly,” Mendel wrote. “At first a certain amount of patience was needed, but I soon found that matters went better when I was conducting several experiments simultaneously.” With multiple crosses in parallel, the production of data accelerated. Gradually, he began to discern patterns in the data-unanticipated constancies, conserved ratios, numerical rhythms. He had tapped, at last, into heredity’s inner logic.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “We seek constancy in heredity – and find its opposite: variation. Mutants are necessary to maintain the essence of our selves. Our.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “It is here that an insight enters our discussion – and it might sound peculiar at first: a test can only be interpreted sanely in the context of prior probabilities.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “If you prefer an “academic life” as a retreat from reality, do not go into biology. This field is for a man or woman who wishes to get even closer to life. – Hermann Muller We.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “The word genocide shares its root with gene – and for good reason: the Nazis used the vocabulary of genes and genetics to launch, justify, and sustain their agenda.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “Six decades and two years, no more than a passing glance of time, separate Mendel’s initial experiments on peas and the court-mandated sterilization of Carrie Buck. Yet in this brief flash of six decades, the gene had transformed from an abstract concept in a botanical experiment to a powerful instrument of social control.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “The tightness of genetic linkage, in short, was a surrogate for the physical proximity of genes on chromosomes: by measuring how often two features-blond-hairedness and blue-eyedness-were linked or unlinked, you could measure the distance between their genes on the chromosome.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “Living humans are endowed with the evolutionary history of our species in our genomes. It is as if we permanently carry a photograph of each of our ancestors in our wallets.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “Morbidly interested in genetics and medical research, Mengele rose to become physician in chief at Auschwitz, where he unleashed a series of monstrous experiments on twins.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “Units of hereditary information, encoded in DNA and packaged on chromosomes, are transmitted through sperm and egg into an embryo, and from the embryo to every living cell in an organism’s body.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “We can now “read” human genomes, and we can “write” human genomes in a manner inconceivable just three or four years ago.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “The picture that emerged from the Minnesota study was not that reared-apart twins were identical, but that they shared a powerful tendency toward similar or convergent behaviors. What was common to them was not identity, but its first derivative.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “One researcher estimates that the effect of the D4DR explains only about 5 percent of the variance in novelty-seeking behavior among individuals. D4DR is likely only one of many genes-as many as ten-that determine this particular aspect of personality.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “As I write this, organisms endowed with genomes are learning to change the heritable features of organisms endowed with genomes.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “The capacity to manipulate genes represented nothing short of a transformation in genetics. We had learned a new language. We needed to convince ourselves, and everyone else, that we were responsible enough to use it.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “A chicken, de Vries realized, was merely an egg’s way of making a better egg.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “What if the solution to the structure of DNA could be achieved by the same “tricks” that Pauling had pulled? X-ray pictures would help, of course – but trying to determine structures of biological molecules using experimental methods, Crick argued, was absurdly laborious – “like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the sound it made while being dropped down a flight of stairs.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “The doctors pushing the frontiers of human medicine had forgotten to account for the common cold.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee Quote: “We loved them – and, yes, we killed them.”
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