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One of the things that got me interested in genetics was the relationship between genes and environment. We are all dealt a certain deck of cards, but our environment can influence the outcomes.

I have this idea of trying to catalog all the genes on the planet.

Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.

Genes themselves are made of bits.

It's often meaningless to talk about a genetic trait without also discussing the environment in which that trait appears. Sometimes, genes don't work at all until the environment awakens them.

I am a conservationist. It is in my DNA.

Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.

Genes can't possibly explain all of what makes us what we are.

Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment.

The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and your environment work together to produce the person you are.