Psychology Quote by Gabor Maté

Interpersonal experience shapes the mind as it continues to develop throughout the lifespan... Interactions with the environment, especially relationships with other people, directly shape…

— Daniel J. Siegel

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

— Leon Kass

Every minute, every second, the pattern of genes being expressed in your brain changes, often in direct or indirect response to events outside the…

— Matt Ridley

The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the…

— Steven Pinker

“We are biological beings, shaped by genetic inheritance and the organization and health of our neurological structures. We have rich inner lives of diverse…

— David N Entwistle

The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on…

— E. O. Wilson

Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience.

— Daniel J. Siegel

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

“The brain creates both the mind and the body we experience. A physical thing creates the mental world we inhabit.”

— Bruce M. Hood

“Rather, each brain develops its own idiosyncratic representations of higher-level content. Which particular neuronal assemblies are recruited to represent a particular concept depends on…

— Nick Bostrom

“My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings—what we sometimes call “mind”—are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology, and nothing more.…

— Michio Kaku

The mind can also be an erogenous zone.

— Raquel Welch