Eye color Quote by David Duchovny

“the popular conception of the gene as a simple causal agent is not valid. The idea that there is a gene for adventurousness, heart…

— Eva Jablonka

“Dimly, as if through a veil, geneticists were beginning to visualize patterns and themes: threads, strings, maps, crossings, broken and unbroken lines, chromosomes that…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Contrary to what we've been taught, genes do not determine physical and character traits on their own. Rather, they interact with the environment in…

— David Shenk

“The gene responsible for creating white eyes (called white eyed), for instance, was inescapably linked to maleness: no matter how Morgan crossed his flies,…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

— Iain McGilchrist

Many families would like to avoid burdening future generations with inherited diseases such as haemophilia or severe developmental disorders. But most would think it…

— Mark Walport

“This is implied in the assertion that a man shows certain behavior because he was “born that way.” To object to this is not…

— B.F. Skinner

All the work on heritability was never based on looking at genes; it was based on the similarity between identical twins or between parents…

— Jerome Kagan

When we talk about genes for anything, like a gene for being gay or a gene for being aggressive or something of that sort,…

— Richard Dawkins

Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players.

— Steven Pinker

“Genetic code is a divine writing.”

— Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident

It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and…

— Nicholas A. Christakis