Body Quote by Matt Ridley Download Open image “The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene” — Matt Ridley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Body Genes Vehicle
The body is a survival machine programmed to propagate the genes that reside inside it. — Richard Dawkins 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
In true natural selection, if a body has what it takes to survive, its genes automatically survive because they are inside it. So the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The causal body is like DNA or RNA in that it is the coding that determines your level of evolution. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
... For Dawkins, evolution is a battle among genes, each seeking to make more copies of itself. Bodies are merely the places where genes… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is no gene "for" such unambiguous bits of morphology as your left kneecap or your fingernail. [...] Hundreds of genes contribute to the… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager in the… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“If you attend a meeting of evolutionary biologists somewhere in America, you might be lucky and spot a tall, gray-whiskered, smiling man bearing a… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“Merchants and craftsmen make prosperity; chiefs, priests and thieves fritter it away.” — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal. — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love with people who fall… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
It's terrifying the way molecular biology has become more and more jargon ridden. But I strongly believe that my book can be read by… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“The gene contains a single 'word', repeated over and over again: CAG, CAG, CAG, CAG ... The repetition continues sometimes just six times, sometimes… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“If you think being descended from apes is bad for your self esteem, then get used to the idea that you are also descended… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Government can encourage innovation, but mainly by doing less, not doing more. — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Note even Jonathan Swift would dare to write a satire in which politicians argued that - in a world where species are vanishing and… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 coined the term ‘meme’ for a unit of cultural imitation. — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
This idea holds out hope that the human race will prosper mightily in the years ahead-because ideas are having sex with each other as… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area, that untouched,… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract… — Jennifer Siebel Newsom Copy Share Image
Boys and boys' body image and clothes have become just as important an issue for boys as for girls. — Rosalind Wiseman Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Racism is a cancer. You cannot ignore it and it'll go away. If you ignore cancer, it simply metastasizes and consumes the whole body. — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body. — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
