Steve Jones (biologist) Quotes

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Gravity is the universal glue that makes the cosmos stick together.

Steve Jones

Sex and taxes are in many ways the same. Tax does to cash what males do to genes. It dispenses assets among the population as a whole. Sex, not death, is the great leveller.

Steve Jones

Evolution is to the social sciences as statues are to birds: a convenient platform upon which to deposit badly digested ideas.

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Evolution is, for most of the time, a race to stay in the same place.

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Evolution triumphs because it turns to natural selection, the plodding accumulation of error.

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Students accept astonishing things happening in human genetics without turning a hair but worry about GM soya beans.

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Philosophy is to science as pornography is to sex: it is cheaper, easier and some people prefer it.

Steve Jones

The Admiralty sent the Beagle to South America with Darwin on board not because they were interested in evolution but because they knew that the first step to understanding (and, with luck, controlling) the world was to make a map of it. The same is true of the genes.

Steve Jones

Steve Jones

Steve Jones

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Born: March 24, 1944 (age 80)

Bio: John Stephen Jones is a Welsh geneticist and from 1995 to 1999 and 2008 to June 2010 was Head of the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London. His studies are conducted in the Galton Laboratory.

Known for:

The Language of the Genes (1993)
Almost Like a Whale (1999)
Darwin's Ghost (1999)
The Single Helix (2005)
Doing Internet Research (1999)

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