Genetics Quote by Michael Shermer

“Genes have plenty to do with behavior. Even more appropriately, all behavioral traits are affected to some degree by genetic variability.65 They have to…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“While upbringing can make a big difference in the short run, scholars argue that, in the long run, grown twins display personality and sociological…

— Kevin DeYoung

Our genetic heritage endows each of us with a series of emotional set-points that determines our temperament. But the brain circuitry involved is extraordinarily…

— Daniel Goleman

Essentially, I mean the almost self-evident fact that individuals, ethnic groups, and races differ among themselves in intelligence and in many other traits, and…

— Murray Rothbard

According to current research, in the determination of a person's level of happiness, genetics accounts for about 50 percent; life circumstances, such as age,…

— Gretchen Rubin

“The whole personality is determined by the temperament and character together. Temperament influences the development of the character to a certain point, but it…

— Zoe McKey

Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do not absolve a person…

— Steven Pinker

“To a large degree, a particular collision of genes and temperament with a suboptimal or hostile environment may explain the development of borderline personality…

— Dolores Mosquera

Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain…

— Steven Pinker

“If genes strongly influence average levels of a trait, that trait is strongly inherited. If genes strongly influence the extent of variability around that…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Human nature is governed by general self-interest and affected by genetic predisposition, which implies that there are likely to be limits to our moral…

— Nayef Al-Rodhan

You know, there's a tremendous amount of genetic propensity not necessarily for what TV shows you like but for literally how you view the…

— Mayim Bialik