Character Quote by David Shenk

Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the environmental signals…

— Bruce H. Lipton

Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the environmental signals…

— Bruce H. Lipton

In true natural selection, if a body has what it takes to survive, its genes automatically survive because they are inside it. So the…

— Richard Dawkins

Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Complex organisms cannot be construed as the sum of their genes, nor do genes alone build particular items of anatomy or behavior by themselves.…

— Stephen Jay Gould

If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.

— Ben Harper

We must distinguish between genes that cause physical characteristics, like the color of your eyes or hair, over which you have no control, and…

— Erwin W. Lutzer

Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain…

— Steven Pinker

“Although all the characteristics of living things are dependent on both genetic and environmental factors, the differences between two individuals in their attributes may…

— John Alcock

More and more research is suggesting that, far from being simply encoded in the genes, much of personality is a flexible and dynamic thing…

— Carol S. Dweck

So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained…

— Steven Pinker