Nature Vs Nurture Debate Quotes

#1. Coloron often pondered how a race, in which the stupid seemed more inclined to breed, had managed to come this far, and why human intelligence persisted - a discussion point in the nature vs nurture debate which had not died in half a millennium.

Neal Asher

#2. It's like chess, you know. The Queen saves the King.

Terry Pratchett

#3. I've been thinking. You'd better be my bridesmaid, since you gave me the idea that led to this whole farce. It's a horrible job, I'm sure, so you deserve it. Plus, you're my friend. Will you do it?

Jayne Bauling

#4. Since I was 12 or 13, I have been taking movie meetings finding a project right for me because I wanted to try it. Craig gave us the script - it was set in Wales, it is really British humour. I just loved it.

Charlotte Church

#5. Playing music is just one of the best things. I can't retire.

Bill Kreutzmann

#6. Never was my political stance determined by the men I was with. I had my own ideas.

Gioconda Belli

#7. I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!'

Geena Davis

#8. There's a constant debate over nature or nurture - they're inseparable.

Craig Venter

#9. No worthy goal should come easily, he told himself. Suffering created value.

Conn Iggulden

#10. I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world, really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don't really have to do much else.

Ellie Goulding

#11. Shoulder-in is the aspirin of horseback riding - it cures everything.

Nuno Oliveira

#12. For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.

John Cleese

#13. Most of my fans are young; they pay for their own tickets and work really hard to be able to come, and so I want to give all of them the best show.

Miley Cyrus

#14. What worries me is that the debate about gender differences still seems to polarize nature vs. nurture, with some in the social sciences and humanities wanting to assert that biology plays no role at all, apparently unaware of the scientific evidence to the contrary

Simon Baron-Cohen