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> [“probably the most important fact about genetics and culture is the delayed maturation of the frontal cortex—the genetic programming for the young frontal cortex to be freer from genes than other brain regions, to be sculpted instead by environment, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-sapolsky/probably-the-most-important-fact-about-genetics-and-culture-is-the/)

[Robert M. Sapolsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-sapolsky/)

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> [From a scientist's perspective, to understand everything that you need to know about human beings, you only have to tinker with all the mechanical parts of genes and the brain until there are no more secrets left.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deepak-chopra/from-a-scientist-s-perspective-to-understand-everything-that-you-need/)

[Deepak Chopra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deepak-chopra/)

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