There are many ways in which genes influence the brain.

“Genes do not determine human behavior; they merely predispose people to act in certain ways. Genes explain a lot, probably far more than is…

— Nicholas Wade

Whoever would not remain in complete ignorance of the resources which cause him to act; whoever would seize, at a single philosophical glance, the…

— Franz Joseph Gall

Too often we forget how powerful we are as individuals to shape how other people see the world. Each one of us constantly broadcasts…

— Michelle Gielan

While nobody has identified any gene for religion, there are certainly some candidate genes that may influence human personality and confer a tendency to…

— Robert Winston

What really happens is that the gene pool becomes filled with genes that influence bodies in such a way that they behave 'as if'…

— Richard Dawkins

Many families would like to avoid burdening future generations with inherited diseases such as haemophilia or severe developmental disorders. But most would think it…

— Mark Walport

Complex organisms cannot be construed as the sum of their genes, nor do genes alone build particular items of anatomy or behavior by themselves.…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Except for the rare cases of plastid inheritance, the inheritance of all known cofactors can be sufficiently accounted for by the presence of genes…

— Thomas Hunt Morgan

As for the presence of large NGF [nerve growth factor] sources in snake venom and male genital organs, they may be conceived as instances…

— Rita Levi-Montalcini

“Where, then, is any particular gene—say, the gene for long legs in humans? This is a little like asking where is Beethoven’s Piano Sonata…

— James Gleick

“The genes are master programmers, and they are programming for their lives.”

— Richard Dawkins

“Thus, for our purposes, genes aren’t about inevitability. Instead they’re about context-dependent tendencies, propensities, potentials, and vulnerabilities. All embedded in the fabric of the…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

This is a whole new era where we're moving beyond little edits on single genes to being able to write whatever we want throughout…

— George M. Church

Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.

— Richard Dawkins

At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.

— Richard Dawkins