Life Quotes

The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.

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"Heredity provides the blueprint; environment provides the context."
Thomas Hunt Morgan
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"We are all participants in nature's grand experiment."
Thomas Hunt Morgan
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"Every organism tells a story if you know how to read it."
Sydney Brenner
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"To understand life, you must love life first."
Sydney Brenner
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"To understand nature is to understand ourselves."
Sydney Brenner
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"Life is a symphony of chemical reactions orchestrated over billions of years."
Max Delbrück
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"We are all products of four billion years of molecular evolution."
Max Delbrück
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"We are all products of countless generations of selection and chance."
Thomas Hunt Morgan
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"Every trait has a story written in the language of genes."
Thomas Hunt Morgan
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"Heredity and environment dance together in the creation of every living thing."
Thomas Hunt Morgan
"To be alive is to be constantly learning and constantly amazed."
Rita Levi-Montalcini
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"Life is the expression of hereditary factors."
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"Every organism is a unique expression of eternal principles."
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"Life continues through heredity."
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"Life is order emerging from natural law."
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"Life expresses itself through infinite variations on eternal themes."
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"Life is a continuous process of hereditary expression."
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"Heredity binds all living things together."
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"Life continues because heredity is reliable."
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"Life is the ultimate expression of natural law."
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"The organism lives according to its hereditary nature."
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"Life is stable because heredity is faithful."
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"Life expresses itself according to its hereditary blueprint."
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"Life is continuous through the hereditary link."
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"What we inherit shapes what we become, yet does not define our choices."
Oswald Avery
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"What we inherit shapes our bodies, but our choices shape our souls."
Oswald Avery
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"Life is a conversation between genes and environment, and we are only beginning to listen."
Sydney Brenner
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"Life's meaning is not found; it is created through our choices."
Hermann Muller
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"Life does not follow our equations; our equations must follow life."
Max Delbrück
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"We are, all of us, collections of atoms that have learned to observe themselves."
Max Delbrück