Arising Quote by Gary Wolf

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

— Robert M. Sapolsky

If life really depends on each gene being as unique as it appears to be, then it is too unique to come into being…

— Frank B. Salisbury

Genes are mysterious things, still unpredictable after all of our research, flecks of humanity that can destroy lives but, just as often, can teach…

— Monica Hesse

“You are a side effect of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.”

— John Green

“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 not about inevitabilities; they're about potentials and vulnerabilities.

— Robert Sapolsky

“evolution can occur through sheer will. Our habits determine the expression of our genes.”

— Adam Burch

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

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

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

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

Isn't it true that whatever isn't determined by our genes must be determined by our environment? What else is there? There's Nature and there's…

— Anonymous