 | Allen Buchanan, Dan W. Brock, Norman Daniels - Philosophy - 2000 - 414 pages
...DNA and first director of the Human Genome Project: "We used to think that our fate was in our stars. Now we know, in large measure, our fate is in our genes" (Watson in Jaroff 1989). If our destiny is our molecular biology, there seems to be no room for freedom,... | |
 | J. P. Moreland, Scott B. Rae - Religion - 2000 - 388 pages
...should give us pause about minimizing its significance. We used, to think our fate was in the stars. Now we know, in large measure, our fate is in our genes. JAMES D. WATSON Just as the Christian soul has provided an archetypal concept through which to understand... | |
 | Sarah E. Chinn - Social Science - 2000 - 260 pages
...Reading the "Book of Life' DNA and the meanings of identity We used to think our fate was in the stars. Now we know, in large measure, our fate is in our genes. (Watson, 1980) What Is Life? DNA as ontology As rhetorics of blood, citizenship, and racial identity... | |
 | Michael Alan Signer - History - 2000 - 486 pages
...structure of DNA) in Time magazine in 1989. Said Watson, "We used to think our fate was in the stars. Now we know, in large measure, our fate is in our genes." Now there are at least three ways to read that statement. First, it might be a scientific statement,... | |
 | Sahotra Sarkar - History - 1996 - 276 pages
...some of these statements: James Watson in Time Magazine: "We used to think our fate was in our stars. Now we know, in large measure, our fate is in our genes" (Jaroff, 1989). Norton Zinder calls the human genome sequence "Rosetta Stone" (Hall, 1990) while Walter... | |
 | Jonathan R. Beckwith - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 270 pages
...support for the HGP Jim Watson stated to Time magazine: "We used to think our fate was in our stars. Now we know, in large measure, our fate is in our genes." The Harvard biologist Walter Gilbert suggested that the human genome sequence would yield "the ultimate... | |
 | Jonathan Marks - Science - 2003 - 337 pages
...Scientists today regrettably sometimes fall into the same trap. "We used to think our fate was in the stars. Now we know, in large measure, our fate is in our genes," the molecular geneticist James Watson told Time in 1989. One may question the existence of fate, its... | |
 | Mark L. Y. Chan, Roland Chia - Genetic engineeing - 2003 - 244 pages
...reductionistic view of the person when he declares, 'We used to think that our fate was in our stars. Now we know, in large measure, our fate is in our genes'. 2 Unfortunately, Watson is not alone in subscribing to and promoting such a view of the person. In... | |
 | Dhavendra Kumar - Medical - 2004 - 630 pages
...co-discoverer of the DNA-double helix is probably relevant, "We used to think our fate was in our stars. Now we know, in large measure, our fate is in our genes. " Dhavendra Kumar Oxford, 2004 REFERENCES 1. Nature (Supplement); reprinted from Vol.421, no.6921;... | |
 | Thomas Anthony Shannon - Health & Fitness - 2004 - 164 pages
...first director of the Human Genome Project, has stated, "We used to think our fate was in the stars. Now we know, in large measure, our fate is in our genes." (57) Harvard zoologist Edward 0. Wilson asserts that the human brain is not tabula rasa later filled... | |
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We used to think our fate was in the stars. Now we know, in large measure, our fate is in our genes" (quoted by Leon Jaroff, "The Gene Hunt, 
