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I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.

~Adam Faith

Topics: Again Blue Chip Come Dream Geneticist Heading Honest Like Limits Now Off Old To Be Honest True University Years I Can

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How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.

~Allen Tate

Topics: Asked Come Does Geneticist Happen How Poem Poetry Psychologists Question Where Write

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My father worked in high-energy nuclear physics, and my mother was a mycologist and a geneticist. After both parents completed postdoctoral fellowships in San Diego in 1962, my father took a faculty position in the Physics Department at Yale, and so the family moved to New Haven, Connecticut.

~Carol W. Greider

Topics: After Both Completed Connecticut Department Diego Faculty Family Father Geneticist Haven Mother Moved New Nuclear Parents Physics Position San San Diego Took Worked Yale

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In the past, geneticists have looked at so-called disease genes, but a lot of people have changes in their genes and don't get these diseases. There have to be other parts of physiology and genetics that compensate.

~Craig Venter

Topics: Changes Compensate Disease Diseases Genes Geneticist Genetics Get In The Past Looked Lot Other Parts Past People Physiology So-Called

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The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.

~Ernst Mayr

Topics: Change Claim Claimed Does Evolutionary Founder Geneticist Major Most Novelty Occur Rapid Small Species Theory Widespread

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As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification.

~Ernst Mayr

Topics: Adaptation Change Consequence Consists Diversification Evolution Fact Gene Geneticist Ignoring Phenomena Quite Separate Simply Totally Two

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