Behavioral Genetics Quotes & Sayings

The nucleic acids have considerable biological importance because of their role in cell growth and in the transmission of hereditary characters. — Severo Ochoa

Behavioral genetics confirms that aggressive tendencies can be inherited, and that gives natural selection material to work with in shifting the average violent tendencies of a population. — Steven Pinker

Show me the science. Last I heard, gay six-year-olds remain unproven. — Vernon D. Burns

We were young, we were pilots, and we were hungry to test the new technology of 'space machines.' And we all wanted to be first. — Gherman Titov

Fiction is founded on truth ... unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them. — Agatha Christie

My willingness to explore and work freely is not without risk, and at times, I find myself caught in a bind ... Knowing I can fix whatever goes wrong allows me to paint, not without thought, but without hesitation. — Brian Johnson

It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face as well as the novelty of 21st-century science. These would include departments of biosocial science, network science, neuroeconomics, behavioral genetics and computational social science. — Nicholas A. Christakis

Live with it. You live with pleasure, don't you? Why don't you live with suffering completely? Can you live with it in the sense of not escaping from it? What takes place? Watch. The mind is very clear, sharp. It is faced with the fact. The very suffering transformed into passion is enormous. From that arises a mind that can never be hurt. Full stop. That is the secret. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Some dreams are meant to be handed over to God. To be remolded and redirected in keeping with his will. Sometimes our plans do not fit with the plans of God. Linux helped ... — Janette Oke

We could watch the madmen, on clement days, sauntering and skipping among the trim gravel walks and pleasantly planted lawns; happy collaborationists who had given up the unequal struggle, all doubts resolved, all duty done, the undisputed heirs-at-law of a century of progress, enjoying the heritage at their ease. — Evelyn Waugh

The eggs taste like clouds. Like spun gold. — Anthony Doerr

The big labels have less of a stranglehold on artists and how they record and where they go. — Kim Wilde

When I read about genetics, I see breakthroughs every day. And while I'm trying to learn more about behavioral science, I must say that I don't feel I get tremendous intellectual stimulation from most of the things I read. — Harold E. Varmus

Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending to a predominance which determines all currents towards itself, and makes the whole life its tributary. — George Eliot

Little bitty thing? Dude, you didn't see her go straight-up psycho. She's like a hella honey badger. — Mark Frost

Directing is like cooking, it's like cuisine. You cannot make a great dish with bad ingredients. I have great actors, and I'm putting them together. That's all I'm doing. — Louis Leterrier

Call to mind a person you've lost that you will miss to the end of your days,and then imagine happening upon that person out in public ... You wouldn't question your sanity, because you couldn't bear to think this wasn't real. And you certainly wouldn't demand explanations, or alert anybody nearby, or reach out to touch this person, not even if you'd been feeling that one touch was worth giving everything up for. You would hold your breath. You would keep as still as possible. You would will your loved one not to go away again. — Anne Tyler

I had to perform at the White House for the president, That's always kind of a weird set to try to put together. — Jeff Foxworthy