Spencer Wells quotes
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“Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.”
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“DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back.”
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“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 WellsSource : Spencer Wells (2012). “The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey”, p.167, Random House
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“The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA.”
-- Spencer WellsSource : Spencer Wells (2012). “The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey”, p.195, Random House
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“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 WellsSource : "Finding the roots of modern humans" by Marsha Walton, www.cnn.com. April 14, 2005.
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“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.”
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“Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.”
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“As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.”
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.56, Simon and Schuster
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“Music is all about transporting people; speaking a language which languages fail to express.”
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“Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves.”
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