Our Genes Quotes

40 Our Genes quotes by 31 unique authors

Isn't it true that whatever isn't determined by our genes must be determined by our environment? What else is there? There's Nature and there's Nurture.… — Daniel Dennett
Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman are as mythical… — Daniel Dennett
Do you realize that there is nothing in our genes that tells us when to die? There are genetic codes that tell us how to… — Jillian Michaels
The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes. — Helen Dunmore
Schwartz's research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives… — Susan Cain
We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor… — Carl Sagan
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
Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all slaves to gravity… — Walter Mosley
We were his disposable things. Brought to him like cattle. Stripped of what made us sisters or daughters or children. There was nothing that he… — Lauren DeStefano
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die, because they are never going to… — Richard Dawkins
It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics. — Nicholas A. Christakis
Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for us to begin to think… — Nicholas A. Christakis
We will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more immediately interest us lies between… — Nicholas A. Christakis
As humans, we have evolved to compete... it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition. — Peter Diamandis
We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve. — Michel Onfray

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