About Quote by Robert Sapolsky Download Open image “Genes are not about inevitabilities; they're about potentials and vulnerabilities.” — Robert Sapolsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare About Genes Vulnerabilities
“Thus, for our purposes, genes aren’t about inevitability. Instead they’re about context-dependent tendencies, propensities, potentials, and vulnerabilities. All embedded in the fabric of the… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies. — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Almost always, genes are about potentials and vulnerabilities rather than about determinism. — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
When we talk about genes for anything, like a gene for being gay or a gene for being aggressive or something of that sort,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is difficult to imagine a greater imposition than adding genes to future generations that changes the nature of future people. — Ian Wilmut Copy Share Image
“Genes determine our risk for a disease, but our lifestyle and environment can either trigger or suppress those risks.” — John J. Ratey Copy Share Image
“the popular conception of the gene as a simple causal agent is not valid. The idea that there is a gene for adventurousness, heart… — Eva Jablonka Copy Share Image
I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible through conventional… — Colin Blakemore Copy Share Image
Genes are mysterious things, still unpredictable after all of our research, flecks of humanity that can destroy lives but, just as often, can teach… — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
The regulation of genes is often more interesting than the genes themselves, and it's the environment that regulates genes. — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“genes might control the possibilities, but epigenetics determines our destiny.” — A.G. Riddle Copy Share Image
Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are not definite… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
You don't want to end up telling somebody who's homeless or a refugee that stress is all perceptual, because it sure isn't in those… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I think the relationship between social-dominance orientation in people and the extent to which they're made uncomfortable by ambiguity and novelty is really important.… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Depression is like the worst disease you can get. It's devastating. — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Juvenile justice is probably the area that's most ripe for reform, in the nice liberal sense of the word, simply because there's no getting… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
When it comes to how neuroscience could help the wider public, the worst thing is when we make advances in, say, mindfulness, and then… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Literal cleanliness and orderliness can release us from abstract cognitive and affective distress - just consider how, during moments where life seems to be… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Words unconsciously shift thoughts and feelings. One person's 'terrorist' is another's 'freedom fighter'; politicians jockey to commandeer 'family values,' and somehow you can't favor… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I think you get to a time in life where by definition stuff's turning to quicksand and wherever you can get some solid footing… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Being president does seem a lot more stressful than being vice president. — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
If a male primate is mean to a female primate, her whole family will come after him. We don't have that sort of accountability… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
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That's something a lot of folks don't know about me - I'm pretty darn funny. — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
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