Gary F. Marcus Quotes

#1. It is no exaggeration to say that genes are essential to nearly every aspect of memory and the process of learning; without them, learning itself would not exist.

Gary F. Marcus

#2. But nobody is born being able to hear [intervals], and many people never master them. Some people never even notice that "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" and "The Alphabet Song" follow the same melody (and hence consist of the same sequence of intervals).

Gary F. Marcus

#3. Because genes work in combination, the incremental effect of adding a new gene to a genome may be not linear, but exponential.

Gary F. Marcus

#4. Language builds on our cognitive capacities to reason about the goals and intentions of other people, on our desire to imitate, our desire to communicate, and our twin capacities for using convention to name things and sequence to indicate differences between differing possibilities.

Gary F. Marcus

#5. One key lesson learned from mapping the genome is that access to a rough initial map proved crucial to developing more detailed maps of small individual human differences.

Gary F. Marcus

#6. What Jacob and Monod had discovered, in essence, was that each gene acts like a single line in a computer program.

Gary F. Marcus

#7. The next major revolution was not technological, but organizational.

Gary F. Marcus