"Biology sets the context, and that is critical,……" — Robin Marantz Henig
"Biology sets the context, and that is critical, but obesity still boils down to whether a person eats too much or exercises enough."
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28 Quotes by Robin Marantz Henig
Robin Marantz Henig has 28 quotes on this site.
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As the brain matures, one thing that happens is the pruning of the synapses. Synaptic pruning does not occur willy-nilly;…
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The limbic system explodes during puberty, but the prefrontal cortex keeps maturing for another 10 years.
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The 20s are like the stem cell of human development: the pluripotent moment when any of several outcomes is possible.…
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I regret not working harder to create true friendships with other couples, not seeking out people with whom to go…
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Even though loneliness affects so many of us, it has gotten scant research attention compared to related conditions like depression…
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When my husband and I were in our twenties, we thought it would be fun to take up cross-country skiing…
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Elderly parents tend to think their relationship with their middle-aged children is smoother than the children do. Adult grandchildren, who…
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Regret is a bitter emotion, so painful that the urge to avoid it often drives decision-making strategies.
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The tenuousness of modern life can make anyone feel overwrought.
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Some people, no matter how robust their stock portfolios or how healthy their children, are always mentally preparing for doom.…
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Anxiety is not fear, exactly, because fear is focused on something right in front of you - a real and…
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In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can…
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More Biology Quotes
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If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the…
— James A. Baldwin
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In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or…
— Michael Behe
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The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's…
— Alton Brown
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High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year…
— Kyle Chandler
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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.
— Deepak Chopra
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If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is…
— George Gaylord Simpson
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A strong feeling of adventure is animating those who are working on bacterial viruses, a feeling that they have a…
— Max Delbruck
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I took biology in high school and didn't like it at all. It was focused on memorization. ... I didn't…
— Francis Collins
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My research has shown me that when emotions are expressed-which is to say that the biochemicals that are the substrate…
— Candace Pert
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Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no…
— Terence McKenna
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The technology of synthetic biology is currently accelerating at four times the rate of Moore's Law. It's been doing that…
— Stewart Brand
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