Bryan Sykes Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“By looking at the details of the DNA, it is possible to chart the flow of your ancestry from your ultimate grandmother to more modern times.”
-- Bryan Sykes

#Grandmother Quotes #Dna Quotes #Details Quotes

“There's no genetic basis for any kind of rigid ethnic or racial classification. . . I'm always asked is there Greek DNA or an Italian gene, but, of course, there isn't. . . . We're very closely related.”
-- Bryan Sykes

Source : "Does God value one race above others?". The Watchtower, July 01, 2011.

#Italian Quotes #Race Quotes #Dna Quotes

“We are all a complete mixture;yet at the same time,we are all related.Each gene can trace its own journey to a different common ancestor.This is a quite extraordinary legacy that we all have inherited from the people who lived before us.Our genes did not just appear when we were born.They have been carried to us by millions of individual lives over thousands of generations.”
-- Bryan Sykes

#Journey Quotes #People Quotes #Mixtures Quotes

“DNA is the messenger which illuminates that connection,handed down from generation to generation,carried,literally,in the bodies of my ancestors.”
-- Bryan Sykes

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

#Dna Quotes #Connections Quotes #Generations Quotes

“Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.”
-- Bryan Sykes

Source : Bryan Sykes (2007). “Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

#Evidence Quotes #Ambiguous Quotes #Myth Quotes

“Are the different species defined by paleontologists - Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis and ourselves, Homo sapiens - all part of the same gene pool or not?”
-- Bryan Sykes

#Different Quotes #Pool Quotes #Genes Quotes

“You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.”

“Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.”

Source : Reader's Digest, 1987.

“Metaphysics of Evolution: What is Matter & Life? 'Recent discoveries from Russia confirm that DNA / Genes are resonant structures which are subtly interconnected to their environment. i.e. Genetic material can be manipulated by waves with certain resonant frequencies.'”

“Pornography incarnates male supremacy. It is the DNA of male dominance. Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every highway and byway of sexual exploitation, is encoded in it.”

“My one and only piece of relevant evidence [for an Aristotelian God] is the apparent impossibility of providing a naturalistic theory of the origin from DNA of the first reproducing species ... [In fact] the only reason which I have for beginning to think of believing in a First Cause god is the impossibility of providing a naturalistic account of the origin of the first reproducing organisms.”

“Flew concluded that research into DNA had 'shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce life, that intelligence must have been involved'.”

“Years ago when DNA was going on, I produced a record in Italy but I didn't think I'd do another one.”

“The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort to avoid facing the awful, uncomfortable truth: that we must act boldly, decisively, comprehensively, and quickly, even before we know every last detail about the crisis. Those who continue to argue that the appropriate response is merely additional research are simply seeking to camouflage timidity or protect their vested interest in the status quo.”

“The artist should fear to become the slave of detail.”

Source : Quoted in Goodrich Albert Pinkham Ryder (1959).

“Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.”