Genetic Determinism Quotes

#1. There is no evidence against genetic determinism more persuasive than the children of the rich.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#2. The very genetic determinism I posited in World's End as a way of shaking off my inherited demons is being proven in fact as we map out the human genome.

T.C. Boyle

#3. Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.

Joseph Parry

#4. To my knowledge significant progress has never been born of competition ... In science, being 'better' than others is of little practical value. Examples of how absurd the idea of scientific competition is are abundant.

Heinrich Rohrer

#5. I think that too ended up affecting a lot of the different research questions that I later asked was really was about well to what extent ... How do we balance choice as possibility and choice as limitations?

Sheena Iyengar

#6. Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will.

Matt Ridley

#7. Do I love laziness more than I love the feeling of accomplishing work? I take the path of least resistance and curl up with a book.

Sylvia Plath

#8. It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms.

Richard Baxter

#9. If I wanna be president, I probably can.

Jesse Ventura

#10. Genes do not make you, any more than brain chemistry makes you hungry, food makes you breathe, breathing makes you die.

Johnny Rich

#11. Viewpoints and skin color don't matter to the Savior. He brought salvation to all manking.

Andrea Boeshaar

#12. NBC gives comedies a chance to find their legs.

Gillian Jacobs

#13. Buddhism is a practice in which we learn to avoid injuring others, and ourselves. It's a practice in which we learn to respond to beauty, and to respond to difficult circumstances with patience, with a sense of calm, with clarity.

Frederick Lenz

#14. It's a funny thing about cities: Some have brief, bright moments of cultural and political dominance, decades- or centuries-long spells when they seem the center of their particular nation, or region, or empire ... only to later fall into obscurity and disrepair, never to regain their former glory.

Hanya Yanagihara

#15. With the coming of radio as a mass medium, suddenly the world changed. It became about, 'Can this leader project emotional connection through the way he speaks on the radio?' And the anxiety about whether he could do that, we've inherited.

Tom Hooper

#16. The contrast between genetic and environmental, between nature and nurture, is not a contrast between fixed and changeable. It is a fallacy of biological determinism to say that if differences are in the genes, no change can occur.

Richard C. Lewontin

#17. Every child is a gifted child,

Toru Kumon

#18. Only the dead know the truth.

Leonid Andreyev

#19. A sick society, unlike a sick individual, fares best under the ministration of many doctors.

Georgia Harkness

#20. And Ellie, if Fin is offering his heart to you, it's just a formality because believe me when I say you already have it.

Rachel Higginson