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Our Genes Quotes by Daniel Dennett
- 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.…
- 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…
More Our Genes Quotes
- It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be… — Lewis Thomas
- The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes. — Helen Dunmore
- Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all… — Walter Mosley
- God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will… — 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… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
- The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations,… — 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.… — Alison Jolly
- It is hard to hide our genes completely. However devoted someone may be to the privacy of his genotype, others with enough… — Unknown Author