Heart disease Quote by Eva Jablonka

“Thus, for our purposes, genes aren’t about inevitability. Instead they’re about context-dependent tendencies, propensities, potentials, and vulnerabilities. All embedded in the fabric of the…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

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

— Robert M. Sapolsky

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

“The gene provides an organizing principle for modern biology—and it tantalizes us with the prospect of controlling our bodies and fates.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Of course we're all programmed genetically to some extent. But the "selfish gene" thesis doesn't explain everything.

— Jane Goodall

“It isn’t genes alone that determine our health destiny, but instead it’s our food and lifestyle choices. Genes do not control us, they respond…

— Anonymous

“Genes determine our risk for a disease, but our lifestyle and environment can either trigger or suppress those risks.”

— John J. Ratey

“That genes explain our behaviour and well-being distracts attention from society as a cause; such ideas also encourage us to accept or pursue chemical,…

— Oliver James

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

“natural selection didn’t design your mind to see the world clearly; it designed your mind to have perceptions and beliefs that would help take…

— Robert Wright

We’re still getting a lot of the popular conception that’s grounded in the one-way, causal image of the genome. The idea that the future…

— John Dupre

“Genes are not destiny. They may define some of your physical features and give you a tiny head start on some things, but your…

— Jamie Le Fay