Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving… — Keith Henson Copy Share Image
The problem with the emotions is not that they are untamed forces or vestiges of our animal past; it is that they… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If there is one thing I learned by reading Epstein's "The Sports Gene" it is that world-class athletes are, by definition, abnormal:… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I've always been antagonistic to any naïve application of the selfish gene theory to politics. Some people have attempted to suggest that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Psychiatrists look for twisted molecules and defective genes as the causes of schizophrenia, because schizophrenia is the name of a disease. If… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Superficially it's a problem if homosexuality is genetic - if the difference between people's sexual preferences is genetic - because at least… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I'd say music runs in my blood. My parents are exceptionally talented singers, so even before I was born, it was a… — Sonu Nigam Copy Share Image
My parents couldn't give me a whole lot of financial support, but they gave me good genes. My dad is a handsome… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
Oh, sheez, what’s Syd Vicious doing back in town? (Payne) How’d the testicle retrieval go, Payne? You still limping?...Thought so. I got… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I've definitely had obstacles in my career - my whole entire career - to stay a certain weight, to get smaller than… — Raven-Symone Copy Share Image
People who are qualified are symphonic orchestra players and jazz musicians; they're qualified to do what they do. Rock stars are lucky.… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
You're not an African because you're born in Africa. You're an African because Africa is born in you. It's in your genes…… — Marimba Ani Copy Share Image
An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I always was fascinated by space and always wanted to learn more about it and wanted to experience it first hand by… — Anousheh Ansari Copy Share Image
The food you eat is among the most significant factors affecting your genes and pushing them toward cancer by causing mutation or… — Dharma Singh Khalsa Copy Share Image
If we studied human beings which can include human genes, human blood samples, and human behavior, then you can leave the animals… — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
On screen, Gene Wilder could often be summed up as an accident waiting to happen, that frizzy, flyaway hair, the eyes darting… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
The individual will to survive is often seen as just that, an individual thing. In fact, it's sort of a gene we… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
I didn't smoke. I didn't smoke then, and I don't smoke now. We worked every day - that keeps you in pretty… — Donald O'Connor Copy Share Image
The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like. Apart from differences in jargon, the pages of a molecular biology journal might… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Innovation is what America does best. Whether it is the Apollo Project to the moon, developing the most advanced defense technologies available,… — Martin Heinrich Copy Share Image
I have some sort of performing gene that's just there and I cannot explain it but I want to connect with people… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
I would like to be known as one of the best actors in the world because that is something that I would… — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible… — Colin Blakemore Copy Share Image
Donald O'Connor was in the film [ 'Singin' in the Rain' ] as well, and he was only 27 years old. So… — Debbie Reynolds Copy Share Image
As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is… — Edward Lawrie Tatum Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin and I and you broke off from the family tree from chimpanzees about five million years ago. They're still our… — Colin Camerer Copy Share Image
Nothing is truly unnatural, because everything that exists, including human intelligence, is a product of nature. If human intelligence can devise ways… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
More and more research is suggesting that, far from being simply encoded in the genes, much of personality is a flexible and… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Dancing is still the hardest profession. Gene Kelly said dancing is a man’s game Women have to do the same thing in… — Mitzi Gaynor Copy Share Image
“This exciting new field of epigenetics--meaning literally "around" the gene--allows us to see how environmental factors alter our gene expression in a… — Woodson Merrell Copy Share Image
I think that space flight is a condition of Nature that comes into effect when an intelligent species reaches the saturation point… — Donald A. Wollheim Copy Share Image
I think there's such a thing, as a performance gene. If it's in your DNA it needs to come out. For me… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and the genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone,… — Elizabeth A. Johnson Copy Share Image
I was blessed to look well and retain a youthful look but that was just genes. I was disappointed when critics started… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
The mind/body connection is like a telephone line - many telephone lines, in fact, teeming with information. Small things like drinking an… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“At this point, scientists have identified over 300 specific genes that play a direct role in mental retardation. That link between genes… — Hunter Maats Copy Share Image