"DNA is the messenger which illuminates that connection,handed down from generation to generation,carried,literally,in the bodies of my ancestors."

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Source : Bryan Sykes (2010). “The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry”, p.288, W. W. Norton & Company

Bryan Sykes

#Dna Quotes #Connections Quotes #Generations Quotes

“Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps.”
“A ghostly side note Soldier boy Miller played a Lucifer-like character in the final two episodes of Joan of Arcadia. Coincidence I do find it strangely poetic, ... that a character who shows up on a show about God to play something kind of satanic winds up in the very last two episodes of that show, and then appears in the show that replaces that show on its exact time and night the following season.”
“I am tired to death! tired of every thing! I would give the universe for a disposition less difficult to please. Yet, after all, what is there to give pleasure? When one has seen one thing, one has seen every thing.”
“A comely olde man as busie as a bee.”
“I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.”
“Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been; it is an unknown language. At the same time it is like being cuckolded, or plotted against. It is part of the universe of events which will never wholly reveal itself to you: a conspiracy the barest outline of which, once visible, will gall you forever.”
“Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this.”
“You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.”

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