Our Genes Quotes

40 quotes by 31 authors

God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist… — Orson Scott Card
There is nothing to learn about love. Everything is already there, in our genes, in our nature. We don't have to learn anything except what… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the… — Lewis Thomas
The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations, can be phrased… — E. O. Wilson
We evolved. We have only to look at the pouting face of a young chimpanzee to laugh at its reflections of ourselves. We know that… — Alison Jolly
It is hard to hide our genes completely. However devoted someone may be to the privacy of his genotype, others with enough curiosity and knowledge… — Philip Kitcher
Our brains are separate and independent enough from our genes to rebel against them.. we do so in a small way everytime we use contraception.… — Richard Dawkins
Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes events? — Joseph Bruchac
Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest complaint is it… — Ang Lee
Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time said, depended to a great extent on who we were-that is, our genes. It depended… — Malcolm Gladwell
The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going… — E. O. Wilson
Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the environmental signals that — Bruce H. Lipton
Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our… — Orson Scott Card
You could say singing is in our genes. Both our parents sang and made up songs constantly. — Isaac Hanson
We are all predisposed to disease if we mismanage our genes. — Mark Sisson
Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities- the capacity to learn to… — Margaret Mead
Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes. — Spencer Wells
Rulership is in our genes, dominion is in our makeup. We were designed to rule the earth. — Myles Munroe
Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill. — Jonah Lehrer
What are all of us but self-reproducing robots? We have been put together by our genes and what we do is roam the world looking… — Richard Dawkins

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