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Our Genes Quotes by Steven Pinker
- There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work toward peace if…
- Evolutionary psychologists seem to want to unmask our noblest motives as ultimately self-interested - to show that our love for children, compassion for the unfortunate…
More Our Genes Quotes
- 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
- 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 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
- Our brains are separate and independent enough from our genes to rebel against them.. we do so in a small way everytime… — Richard Dawkins
- Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by… — Joseph Bruchac
- Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest… — 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… — Malcolm Gladwell
- The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and… — 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… — Bruce H. Lipton