The candidate gene approaches show that the effect of a…

“Amazingly, prison sentences for murderers have now been lessened in at least two cases because it was argued that the criminal, having the “warrior…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

The distance between a gene and a behavior is of greatest interest to me. The relative contributions of nature and nurture, of nucleotide and…

— John Medina

“In addition to single-gene genetic disorders, there are just five causes of all disease: poor diet, chronic stress, microbes, toxins, and allergens, all of…

— Mark Hyman

What causes autism? As far as we know in 2013, there is no single gene or single environmental factor that accounts for the more…

— Thomas R. Insel

“Sex, one of the most complex of human traits, is unlikely to be encoded by multiple genes. Rather, a single gene, buried rather precariously…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Heritability pertains to the entirety of the genome, not to a single gene.

— Steven Pinker

“So testosterone does subtle things to behavior. Nonetheless, this doesn’t tell us much because everything can be interpreted every which way. Testosterone increases anxiety—you…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behaviour. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to…

— Anonymous

By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological…

— Deepak Chopra

“the mind-numbing routine. It was the castration of thought,”

— Hugh Howey

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

— Vince Lombardi

I doubt that we Americans can come to terms with our money neuroses without understanding the more florid pathology of the very rich for…

— Philip Slater

The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white…

— Thomas Sowell

I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that…

— Nathan Englander

“Malchut is also the Alma D’Itgalya, “the Revealed World.” Here our latent potential is actualized through behavior and expression.”

— Laibl Wolf