Steve Jones Quotes

born 1944 Wales

John Stephen Jones (born 24 March 1944) is a British geneticist and, from 1995 to 1999 as well as from 2008 to June 2010, Head of the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London.

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Finland — a country that is a dilute solution of land in water.

Darwin's Ghost (2000)

Sex must be important as it is so expensive.

The Language of the Genes (1994)

Freud's antique notion of women as diminished men is quite wrong. Biology instead reveals every man's battle to escape the woman within.

Y: The Descent of Men (2003)

Biologists have an adolescent fascination with sex. Like teenagers they are embarrassed by the subject because of their ignorance.

The Language of the Genes (1994)

Karl Marx, himself a denizen of one of the most congested of all London districts, was equally impressed by the dismal conditions of the new proletariat. he sent Darwin a copy of Das Kapital (which was found unread after his death).

The Language of the Genes (1994)

Just why abstinence is a bad thing is not certain. In spite of the attractions of the mutation theory the frank answer is that, although the reason for the existence of women is obvious enough, nobody has any real idea what point there is in being a man. Men have however, made many attempts to justify their existence.

The Language of the Genes (1994)

To the question of whether sharing 96 percent of our genetic make-up with chimps makes us 96 percent chimp; we also share about 50 percent of our DNA with bananas — that does not make us half bananas!

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Steve Jones (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.