…congenital killers and criminals
…congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness. Elizabeth Gould Davis
Chromosomes
We become male automatically
We become male automatically because of the Y chromosome and the little magic peanut, but if we are to become men we need the helpof other men–we need our fathers to model for us and then to anoint us, we need our buddies to share the coming-of-age rituals with us and to let us join … Read more
Royal blood isn’t blue,
Royal blood isn’t blue, it is a jaundiced shade of red and riddled with broken chromosomes Dean Cavanagh
The gods that we’ve
The gods that we’ve made are exactly the gods you’d expect to be made by a species that’s about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee. Christopher Hitchens
In mathematics and science,
In mathematics and science, there is no difference in the intelligence of men and women. The difference in genes between men and women is simply the Y chromosome, which has nothing to do with intelligence. Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
When the man who
When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy silence. Brand Blanshard
The test for whether
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. Bella Abzug
Man’s destiny was no
Man’s destiny was no longer determined from ‘above’ by a super-human wisdom and will, but from ‘below’ by the sub-human agencies of glands, genes, atoms, or waves of probability. …they could determine his fate, but could provide him with no moral guidance, no values and meaning. A puppet of the Gods is a tragic figure, … Read more
This is a strange
This is a strange book: visionary and dark. It stutters out a kind of music: repeated phrases which accumulate errors and mutate as they go like chromosomes or, as Woodward puts it better, ‘visible fissile ribbons.’ It’s as if we were present for the moments of creation and extinction. Uncanny Valley is ominous and beautiful. … Read more