It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital.
Selfish-gene theory tells us nothing about the value of interacting through language.
In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.
And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.
Most of what you hear about entrepreneurshi p is all wrong. It's not magic; it's not mysterious; and it has nothing to do with genes. It's a discipline and, like any discipline, it can be learned.
You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.
Looking out over the port of Dover, with the endless steam of boats coming in and out, every British citizen is reminded that belonging here has never been about blood or genes. It's simply about being at home on this discrete island and being aware of the privileges and responsibilities that brings.
There's a belief that wherever your Ancestors took shape from the sticks and stones that formed them, that's home. Ancestors from the coast leave their mark, Ancestors from the mountains, from the desert, they all leave their mark on the genes. When you come home, the genes rejoice.
For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.
I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do not absolve a person any more than do explanations that appeal to upbringing.
As was predicted at the beginning of the Human Genome Project, getting the sequence will be the easy part as only technical issues are involved. The hard part will be finding out what it means, because this poses intellectual problems of how to understand the participation of the genes in the functions of living cells.
Well, my mom was an Olympian, so we have some good genes on that front.
Rulership is in our genes, dominion is in our makeup. We were designed to rule the earth.
It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.
As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version of Fred Astaire, and he was amazing as well.
Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.
I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry
I do not have a bride gene. I haven't been planning a wedding since I was 3. I never put a sheet on my head and pretended that it was a veil.
We have sexual lust even though we know perfectly well that, because we're using contraception, it is not going to result in the propagation of our genes. That doesn't matter, because the lust was built into our brains at a time when there was no contraception.