Selfish-gene theory tells us nothing about the value of interacting through language. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Between last night and this morning, I've been getting a lot of messages from overseas fans along the lines of 'There's an… — Tite Kubo Copy Share Image
In all probability the Human Genome Project will, someday, find that I carry some recessive gene for optimism, because despite all my… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In our prehistoric past, we would have lived in extended families, surrounded by kin whose interests we might have wanted to promote… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a small-town doctor and he used to say that I was missing a gene that told me that some… — Paul Budnitz 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
“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
Gene Wilder characters wanted to be calm, but to the great delight of audiences, they rarely succeeded. — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We enjoy telling ourselves that we will soon be gods, masters of the planet, manipulating the genes of living creatures and rebuilding… — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
War is part of our history, but it is not in at all the same sense part of our prehistory. It is… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down. — Hale Irwin Copy Share Image
And I tell you one thing, if the primates that we came from, had know that someday politicians would come out of… — John Sheridan Copy Share Image
I think that there's got to be a comic gene in some way, but it's so much about it is how you… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
Every minute, every second, the pattern of genes being expressed in your brain changes, often in direct or indirect response to events… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
The male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
I think most people will tell you that. They can go along and, while they're denying that they are addicted, say it's… — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You start by copying other people's paintings or music or whatever. You get all of those skills before you branch out. Really… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
I come from a blue collar family, but my personal life isn't. I didn't get the gene that my grandfather had in… — Mike Rowe Copy Share Image
We do share with my mother what I would refer to as an anxiety gene. And I think it is genetic, that… — Sherry Lansing Copy Share Image
