Biology Quote by William Sims

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

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

— Jeffrey C. Hall

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for…

— Kurt Vonnegut

There is no other species on Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the…

— Carl Sagan

Tragically, some people are genetically more susceptible than others to agripoisons and industrial pollutants. Genetic engineering to correct these medical problems is a narrow…

— Michael Fox

The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with…

— Arthur Koestler

The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most "things" now done by our…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Healing is the initial justification for every upgrade. Find some professors experimenting in genetic engineering or brain–computer interfaces, and ask them why they are…

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

— Leon Kass

We are intelligent atoms. We are intelligent organic structures. We can change who we are. We can heal ourselves. With genetic engineering, we are…

— Frederick Lenz

The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.

— Salvatore J. Cordileone

“As Rollin put it in his book The Frankenstein Syndrome, ‘It is simply false that all genetic engineering must harm animals. Unless one assumes…

— Emily Anthes