Bruce Lipton Quotes

Your genetics is not your destiny.

Genes can't possibly explain all of what makes us what we are.

Genes don't mean necessarily that you have got a certain strand of gene that makes you particularly acceptable as a public official.

If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.

One of the things that got me interested in genetics was the relationship between genes and environment. We are all dealt a certain deck of cards, but our environment can influence the outcomes.

Heredity proposes and development disposes.

Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.

Your genetics load the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger.

People think genes are an absolute cause of traits. But the notion that the genome is the blueprint for humanity is a very bad metaphor. If you think we're hard-wired and deterministic, there should indeed be a lot more genes.

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.

It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it is in any animal merely statistical - not deterministic.

Genes are not about inevitabilities; they're about potentials and vulnerabilities.

Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

Even with seemingly simple things like eye color, you can't tell from my genetic code whether I have blue eyes or not. So it's naive to think that complex human behaviors, like risk-seeking, are driven by changes in one or two genes.

Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far.

Genetics play a huge part in who we are. But we also have free will.

It's often meaningless to talk about a genetic trait without also discussing the environment in which that trait appears. Sometimes, genes don't work at all until the environment awakens them.

We used to think that our destiny is in the stars. Now we know that its in our genes, in our DNA.

Man is the control experiment of heredity and environment; and since his heredity controls him, he tries to control his environment.

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.

They say your genetics are going to set your direction regardless of what happens, but I think there's more to it than that.

Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.

So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents.

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

I don't know if acting is genetic. Maybe it's environmental.