Biology Quote by Nicholas Wade

“Biological determinism is a blight on science. It implies that the way things are is the way they must be. [...] This position is…

— John Horgan

History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves

— Jared Diamond

“To acknowledge that history is not deterministic is to acknowledge that it is just a coincidence that most people today believe in nationalism, capitalism…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Evolution is surely most deterministic for those still unaware of it”

— Richard D. Alexander

“If history has taught me anything about the nature of others, it has thought me that when natures can not be denied, they persist.”

— Dew Platt

Biological determinism is, in its essence, a theory of limits. It takes the current status of groups as a measure of where they should…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Almost always, genes are about potentials and vulnerabilities rather than about determinism.

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“The differences in the physical and mental states of mankind are to be regarded rather as differences of development than of origin.”

— James John Courtenay

“I have had my mother's wing of my genetic ancestry analyzed by the National Geographic tracing service and there it all is: the arrow…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The future of a society was not determined by the traits its members shared but rested entirely on their differences”

— Orhan Pamuk

The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences…

— Jared Diamond

“History doesn’t repeat itself, but human nature remains the same.”

— Ken Burns