"The truth, it is said, is rarely pure……" — Iain McGilchrist
"The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent."
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16 Quotes by Iain McGilchrist
Iain McGilchrist has 16 quotes on this site.
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We bring about a world in consciousness that is partly what is given, and partly what we bring, something that…
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Socialism and capitalism are both essentially materialist, just different ways of approaching the lifeless world of matter and deciding how…
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Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of…
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness…
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The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses…
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Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as…
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I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship…
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We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.
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Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to…
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Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that…
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To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand…
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More Genetics Quotes
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one of 128 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour.
— Andre Agassi
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I'm lucky that I have good genetics. Like you said, it just gets better as I get older.
— Margaret Cho
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Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a professor…
— John Lennox
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(After meeting her birth mother after more than 40 years) We exchange bunches of orchids, laughing at the coincidence of…
— Jackie Kay
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The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel…
— Theodosius Dobzhansky
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Among innumerable footsteps of divine providence to be found in the works of nature, there is a very remarkable one…
— John Arbuthnot
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Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be…
— Oswald Avery
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I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments…
— Linus Pauling
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In the course of individual development, inherited characters appear, in general, earlier than adaptive ones, and the earlier a certain…
— Ernst Haeckel
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It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for…
— Francis Crick
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It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science…
— Lewis Thomas
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Molecular genetics, our latest wonder, has taught us to spell out the connectivity of the tree of life in such…
— Max Delbruck
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