Gene Patents Quotes & Sayings

If you patent a discovery which is unique, say a human gene or even just one particular function of a human gene, then you are actually creating a monopoly, and that's not the purpose of the world of patents. — John Sulston

A man of prayer regards what are known as physical calamities as divine chastisement. — Mahatma Gandhi

Many scientists have interfered with science in precisely the way courts always worried tissue donors might do. "It's ironic," she told me. "The Moore court's concern was, if you give a person property rights in their tissues, it would slow down research because people might withhold access for money. But the Moore decision backfired - it just handed that commercial value to researchers." According to Andrews and a dissenting California Supreme Court judge, the ruling didn't prevent commercialization; it just took patients out of the equation and emboldened scientists to commodify tissues in increasing numbers. Andrews and many others have argued that this makes scientists less likely to share samples and results, which slows research; they also worry that it interferes with health-care delivery. — Rebecca Skloot

The more people love you, the more there's going to be people that hate you. — Kylie Jenner

I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me! — Sally Field

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. — Karl Marx

The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise. — Benjamin Disraeli

Maybe it was what I needed too. For all those years I told myself — Dorothea Benton Frank