Our Genes Quotes
40 Our Genes quotes by 31 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.
— Helen Dunmore
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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As humans, we have evolved to compete... it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition.
— Peter Diamandis
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We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve.
— Michel Onfray
Who Wrote These Our Genes Quotes
31 authors contributed a total of 40 Our Genes Quotes, led by these top contributors: