Peripheral Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

“testosterone’s actions are contingent and amplifying, exacerbating preexisting tendencies toward aggression rather than creating aggression out of thin air.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

If you bring in testosterone outside your body, it probably stops producing it because it thinks you're going to get it from the outside.

— Tyron Woodley

If your body produces testosterone naturally, fine. Mine doesn't.

— Chael Sonnen

“So testosterone does subtle things to behavior. Nonetheless, this doesn’t tell us much because everything can be interpreted every which way. Testosterone increases anxiety—you…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Testosterone is the hormone of collaboration and competition that, whenever we compete on a team, we collaborate with our teammates. And most of us…

— Po Bronson

I think that testosterone is a rare poison.

— Germaine Greer

“Testosterone rots the brain . . .”

— S.M. Stirling

As for testosterone, it's gotten a bum rap. Yes, it has tons to do with aggression but it doesn't cause aggression as much as…

— Robert Sapolsky

Testosterone is the world’s most dangerous drug. Get one molecule on you and you’re helpless.

— Julie Smith

“Mutual suffering bred solidarity when testosterone was not involved”

— Tim Tigner

Importantly, rather than promoting aggression, testosterone promotes whatever is needed to maintain status when challenged.

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“When a rat wins a fight, the number of testosterone receptors increases in the ventral tegmentum and accumbens, increasing sensitivity to the hormone’s feel-good…

— Robert M. Sapolsky