Acquisition Quote by Noam Chomsky

A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and…

— B. F. Skinner

Genetics is where we come from. It's deeply natural to want to know.

— Ellen Ullman

All inherited possibilities and all influences of the body, all environmental influences, including educational application, are perceived, assimilated, digested, and answered by a living…

— Alfred Adler

Everybody is going to want to look at their genetics. You're going to want to get a genetic profile.

— Gregory Stock

When a trait is universal, evolutionary biologists look for a genetic explanation and wonder how that gene or genes might enhance survival or reproductive…

— Robin Marantz Henig

I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.

— Katherine Dunn

“In the world of the extended phenotype, ask not how an animal's behaviour benefits its genes; ask instead whose genes it is benefiting.”

— Richard Dawkins

Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as well as…

— Thomas Hunt Morgan

Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.

— John Maynard Smith

Genetics help to some degree, but the most important thing is the mind and the spirit. These two are even more powerful than physical…

— Serge Nubret

Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people…

— Katherine Dunn

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

— Leon Kass