Genes Quote by Steven Pinker Download Open image “Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players.” — Steven Pinker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Genes Interiors Monologues Play Player
“Where, then, is any particular gene—say, the gene for long legs in humans? This is a little like asking where is Beethoven’s Piano Sonata… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I think there's such a thing, as a performance gene. If it's in your DNA it needs to come out. For me it originally… — Cillian Murphy 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
Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most selfish thing… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“While genes are pivotal in establishing some aspects of emotionality, experience plays a central role in turning genes on and off. DNA is not… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
“Science has discovered that, like any work of literature, the human genome is a text in need of commentary, for what Eliot said of… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“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
“A gene is defined as any portion of chromosomal material that potentially lasts for enough generations to serve as a unit of natural selection.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Contrary to what we've been taught, genes do not determine physical and character traits on their own. Rather, they interact with the environment in… — David Shenk 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
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Consistent style prevents presentation from getting in the way of content. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I've never argued that humans are massively hot-wired. What I was trying to point out was that you can't understand how we learn unless… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are less likely… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock.… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The biblical story of the binding of Isaac shows that human sacrifice was far from unthinkable in the 1st millennium BCE. The Israelites boasted… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
In fact, without a specification of a creature's goals, the very idea of intelligence is meaningless. A toadstool could be given a genius award… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The obvious cure for the tragic shortcomings of human intuition in a high-tech world is education. And this offers priorities for educational policy: to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The families in positions of great financial power obsessively interbreed with each other. But I'm not talking about one Earth race, Jewish or non-Jewish.… — David Icke Copy Share Image
Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience. — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
And when I went to Houston, they had a conditioning coach by the name of Gene Coleman. And that was the first time I… — Nolan Ryan Copy Share Image
Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A renaissance in cellular biology has recently revealed the molecular mechanisms by which thoughts and perceptions directly influence gene activity and cell behavior...Energy psychology,… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
I always found that kind of hard, and even though Gene Kelly was also a taskmaster, Bobby [Fosse] was tougher. — Debbie Reynolds Copy Share Image
As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version… — Maksim Chmerkovskiy Copy Share Image
Let's face it, you have to have a slightly recessive gene that has a little something to do with the brain to go out… — Tim Green Copy Share Image
This is a whole new era where we're moving beyond little edits on single genes to being able to write whatever we want throughout… — George M. Church Copy Share Image
