Spencer Wells famous quotes

Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.
-- Spencer Wells

#Book #Blood #Language

DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back.
-- Spencer Wells

#Motivation #Inspiration #Mushrooms

We are all Africans under the skin.
-- Spencer Wells

#Skins

Taken with the archaeological data, we can say that the old hypothesis of an invasion of people - not merely their language - from the steppe appears to be true.
-- Spencer Wells

#Taken #Data #People

The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA.
-- Spencer Wells

#Book #Dna

So what we can answer [as geneticists] is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically we have to contextualize it -- the archaeology, the linguistic pattern, even the climatology.
-- Spencer Wells

#Answers #Patterns #Ancestry

Imagine you're copying a very long document, and occasionally you'll put an A where there should be a C. And that mistake has been translated down through the generations, and more mistakes have accumulated. So the longer the lineage has been in existence, the more mistakes the sequence is going to have.
-- Spencer Wells

#Mistake #Long #Generations

Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.

As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.

In very clear and available language, this book details how to recognize the inner critic and how to deal effectively with it. Byron Brown's presentation is useful for any individual who wishes to be free from the inner suffering and coercion of this ancient foe of our humanity, but it is specifically directed to those interested and engaged in the inner journey toward realization and enlightenment.

I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,” according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.

I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.

If we consider how greatly he has sinned against the masses in the course of the centuries, how he has squeezed and sucked the blood again and again; if furthermore, we consider how the people gradually learned to hate him for this, and ended up by regarding his existence as nothing but punishment of Heaven for the other peoples, we can understand how hard this shift must be for the Jew.

Music is all about transporting people; speaking a language which languages fail to express.

At a priesthood meeting... the strongest language in regard to Plural Marriage was used that I ever heard, and among other things it was stated that all men in position who would not observe and fulfill that law should be removed from their places.

Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.