Top Genes Quotes

Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought. Eac...

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.

The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as...

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species.

What shall it profit a male if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his immortal genes?

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The problem with racial discrimination, though, is not the inference of a person's race from their genetic characteristics. It is quite the opposite: it is the inference of a person's characteristics...

In a massive, long-term study of 17,000 civil servants, an almost unbelievable conclusion emerged: the status of a person's job was more likely to predict their likelihood of a heart attack than obesi...

Our genes still expect us to eat a higher fat diet; they still see agricultural foods (and modern foods such as sugar), as poisonous; they still see lack of sunlight and exercise as problematic. We ha...

Experiences and memories make us who we are, not just our genes.

It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish.

To label someone as selfless is symptomatic of having bought the preposterous claim that a human being can have great concern for other human beings and little concern for themselves, or that, when ta...

No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person.

Every single good person is a good person for their own sake, not for the sake of humanity, not even for the sake of another human being.

The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed.

The only thing I hate about good people is that they like making their being good people bad people’s problem.

Females and boys are the only creatures that propose others for friendship. As for the rest of us, friendship sort of just happens.

Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.

Science has discovered that, like any work of literature, the human genome is a text in need of commentary, for what Eliot said of poetry is also true of DNA: 'all meanings depend on the key of interp...

The difference between a ‘man’ and a ‘father’ is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life.