Genes Quotes · Page 30

I think it's the most responsible thing you can do, to have kids. It's not something to be taken lightly. I don't…

— George Clooney

To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala”—the home of the fight-or-flight reflex—“is as limiting as saying…

— Scott Stossel

Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman…

— Anonymous

Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.

— Edward Abbey

Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.

— Albert Ellis

My mother loved Gene Wilder when I was growing up, so I used to watch all his movies with her. I just…

— Lucy Punch

It's in our genes, we were built to wander.

— Helen Fisher

We are compelled to drive toward total knowledge, right down to the levels of the neuron and the gene. When we have…

— E. O. Wilson

For example, both humans and chimps have a broken copy of a gene that in other mammals helps make vitamin C. ...…

— Michael Behe

You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how…

— Daniel Quinn

The passengers in our microbiome contain at least four million genes, and they work constantly on our behalf: they manufacture vitamins and…

— Michael Specter

The primary problem is not to provide the public with the knowledge of how far it is to the nearest star and…

— Richard Lewontin

Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.

— Robert Quine

It was mostly an aura about him (Gene Kelly). For me he was Hollywood. The way I'd imagined it as a child.

— Catherine Deneuve

The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would…

— Bill Nye

Knowing that changing lifestyle changes our genes is often very motivating - not to blame, but to empower.

— Dean Ornish

I remember the review from Michael Wilmington in Chicago, and Gene Siskel wrote really smart reviews where I thought, "Oh, they totally…

— Judd Apatow

He [Gene Kelly] once told me dancing was a man's game, as much of a sport as baseball itself. And he made…

— Liza Minnelli

This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms - folded them into…

— Anonymous

You could double the number of synaptic connections in a very simple neurocircuit as a result of experience and learning. The reason…

— Eric Kandel

“The brain is heavily influenced by genes. But from birth through young adulthood, the part of the human brain that most defines…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of…

— Richard Dawkins

“Genetics, accidents of birth or events in early childhood have left criminals' brains and bodies with measurable flaws predisposing them to committing…

— Adrian Raine

I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party.

— Francesca Annis

I'm a happy and productive person. I'm very fortunate; I was born with happy genes. I've got a lot of energy.

— Stanley Hauerwas