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Genes Quotes

Rulership is in our genes, dominion is in our makeup. We were designed to rule the earth Picture Quote #1

If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you’re driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation Picture Quote #1

No one knows what the nongenetic causes of individuality are. Perhaps people are shaped by modifications of genes that take place after conception, or by haphazard fluctuations in the chemical soup in the womb or the wiring up of the brain or the expression of the genes themselves Picture Quote #1

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. Each of us is dealt a unique hand of tastes and aptitudes, like curiosity, ambition, empathy, a thirst for novelty or for security, a comfort level with the social or the mechanical or the abstract. Some opportunities we come across click with our constitutions and set us along a path in life Picture Quote #1

I think there was always some scrawny dreamer sitting at the edge of the firelight, who had the ability to imagine dangers, to look into the future in his imagination and see possibilities, and therefore survived to pass his genes on to the next generation Picture Quote #1

Just as blueprints don’t necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don’t necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most selfish thing a gene can do is build a selfless brain. Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players Picture Quote #1

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He kissed back, all the pages spread out around us like riddles waiting to be solved. Let them wait. Let my genes unravel, my hinges come loose. If my fate rests in the hands of a madman, let death come and bring its worse. I’ll take the ruined craters of laboratories, the dead trees, this city with ashes in the oxygen, if it means freedom. I’d sooner die here than live a hundred years with wires in my veins Picture Quote #1

If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless good fortune. Such a universe would be neither evil nor good in intention... The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference Picture Quote #1

In true natural selection, if a body has what it takes to survive, its genes automatically survive because they are inside it. So the genes that survive tend to be, automatically, those genes that confer on bodies the qualities that assist them to survive Picture Quote #1

The argument of this book is that we, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes Picture Quote #1

Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have a chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do Picture Quote #1

Each generation is a filter, a sieve; good genes tend to fall through the sieve into the next generation; bad genes tend to end up in bodies that die young or without reproducing Picture Quote #1

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I cannot say that I have been hindered all my life by the permutation of genes that resulted in me being born a woman Picture Quote #1

I was always thin. I guess I have good genes, so I never worried too much about my weight Picture Quote #1

Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is in my genes Picture Quote #1

Genes that underlie the capacity to receive, use and transmit information are the evolving properties Picture Quote #1

No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn’t we Picture Quote #1

More and more research is suggesting that, far from being simply encoded in the genes, much of personality is a flexible and dynamic thing that changes over the life span and is shaped by experience Picture Quote #1

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Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the environmental signals that Picture Quote #1

Your own beliefs are selecting your genes, and if you don’t have the right genes to handle the stress that your in, your belief will rewrite your genes in an effort to do so Picture Quote #1

People need to realize that their thoughts are more primary than their genes, because the environment, which is influenced by our thoughts, controls the genes Picture Quote #1

It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital Picture Quote #1

Human beings function better if they are deceived by their genes into thinking that there is a disinterested objective morality binding upon them, which all should obey Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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I would ask my dad what he did, and he’d say, ‘I listen to people’s problems.’ In some way what he did for a living is in my genes Picture Quote #1

With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them Picture Quote #1

God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there’s no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause Picture Quote #1

I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it’s just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me Picture Quote #1

Everything that we eat today has been improved through some sort of breeding process. Anytime you do this, you introduce not only the genes that you know, but some that are not characterized Picture Quote #1

What I imagined doesn’t require anti-gravity beams or anything too spectacular, just advances in analysing different genes, finding out what they can do and recombining them Picture Quote #1

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Rulership is in our genes, dominion is in our makeup. We were designed to rule the earth (Genes Quotes) If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you’re driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation (Genes Quotes) No one knows what the nongenetic causes of individuality are. Perhaps people are shaped by modifications of genes that take place after conception, or by haphazard fluctuations in the chemical soup in the womb or the wiring up of the brain or the expression of the genes themselves (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. Each of us is dealt a unique hand of tastes and aptitudes, like curiosity, ambition, empathy, a thirst for novelty or for security, a comfort level with the social or the mechanical or the abstract. Some opportunities we come across click with our constitutions and set us along a path in life (Genes Quotes) I think there was always some scrawny dreamer sitting at the edge of the firelight, who had the ability to imagine dangers, to look into the future in his imagination and see possibilities, and therefore survived to pass his genes on to the next generation (Genes Quotes) Just as blueprints don’t necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don’t necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most selfish thing a gene can do is build a selfless brain. Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players (Genes Quotes) He kissed back, all the pages spread out around us like riddles waiting to be solved. Let them wait. Let my genes unravel, my hinges come loose. If my fate rests in the hands of a madman, let death come and bring its worse. I’ll take the ruined craters of laboratories, the dead trees, this city with ashes in the oxygen, if it means freedom. I’d sooner die here than live a hundred years with wires in my veins (Genes Quotes) If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless good fortune. Such a universe would be neither evil nor good in intention... The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference (Genes Quotes) In true natural selection, if a body has what it takes to survive, its genes automatically survive because they are inside it. So the genes that survive tend to be, automatically, those genes that confer on bodies the qualities that assist them to survive (Genes Quotes) The argument of this book is that we, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes (Genes Quotes) Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have a chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do (Genes Quotes) Each generation is a filter, a sieve; good genes tend to fall through the sieve into the next generation; bad genes tend to end up in bodies that die young or without reproducing (Genes Quotes) I cannot say that I have been hindered all my life by the permutation of genes that resulted in me being born a woman (Genes Quotes) I was always thin. I guess I have good genes, so I never worried too much about my weight (Genes Quotes) Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is in my genes (Genes Quotes) Genes that underlie the capacity to receive, use and transmit information are the evolving properties (Genes Quotes) No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn’t we (Genes Quotes) More and more research is suggesting that, far from being simply encoded in the genes, much of personality is a flexible and dynamic thing that changes over the life span and is shaped by experience (Genes Quotes) Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the environmental signals that (Genes Quotes) Your own beliefs are selecting your genes, and if you don’t have the right genes to handle the stress that your in, your belief will rewrite your genes in an effort to do so (Genes Quotes) People need to realize that their thoughts are more primary than their genes, because the environment, which is influenced by our thoughts, controls the genes (Genes Quotes) It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital (Genes Quotes) Human beings function better if they are deceived by their genes into thinking that there is a disinterested objective morality binding upon them, which all should obey (Genes Quotes) 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 (Genes Quotes) I would ask my dad what he did, and he’d say, ‘I listen to people’s problems.’ In some way what he did for a living is in my genes (Genes Quotes) With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them (Genes Quotes) God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there’s no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause (Genes Quotes) I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it’s just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me (Genes Quotes) Everything that we eat today has been improved through some sort of breeding process. Anytime you do this, you introduce not only the genes that you know, but some that are not characterized (Genes Quotes) What I imagined doesn’t require anti-gravity beams or anything too spectacular, just advances in analysing different genes, finding out what they can do and recombining them (Genes Quotes)

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