Quote by Haruki Murakami Download Open image ““Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers—passageways—for genes.”” — Haruki Murakami ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Human being are ultimately nothing but carriers - passageways - for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation."… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The gene provides an organizing principle for modern biology—and it tantalizes us with the prospect of controlling our bodies and fates.” — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“Genes aren’t designed to make us happy. They design us to make more copies of themselves.” — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
“The dirty little secret of genomics is that we still know next to nothing about how a genome translates into the particularities of a… — Svante Pääbo Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“genes might control the possibilities, but epigenetics determines our destiny.” — A.G. Riddle Copy Share Image
Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes don't think… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“After all, looking around, we see bodies, not naked genes. Bodies, bodies everywhere: eating, sleeping, being eaten, growing, reproducing, laughing, lounging, walking, running, swimming,… — Nanelle Barash Copy Share Image
“Human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to the place they are born… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else. Like I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too soon needed ten, then thirty, thena full minute...” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There's not a branch of publishing or broadcasting that doesn't depend in some way on advertising. It'd be like an aquarium without water. Why,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“One by one, I'll face the tasks before me and complete them as best I can. Focusing on each stride forward, but at the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Eleven o'clock had come and gone. I had to find a way to bring this conversation to a successful conclusion and get out of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image