Behave Quote by Richard Dawkins

“The gene provides an organizing principle for modern biology—and it tantalizes us with the prospect of controlling our bodies and fates.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.

— Walter Gilbert

There are many ways in which genes influence the brain.

— Sebastian Seung

In any complex organism, brain formation and function must be controlled in part by genes.

— Jeffrey C. Hall

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

— Leon Kass

The body is a survival machine programmed to propagate the genes that reside inside it.

— Richard Dawkins

Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.

— Ben Harper

Complex organisms cannot be construed as the sum of their genes, nor do genes alone build particular items of anatomy or behavior by themselves.…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on…

— E. O. Wilson

A gene might be able to assist replicas of itself that are sitting in other bodies. If so, this would appear as individual altruism…

— Richard Dawkins