Aidan Quinn Quotes

Your genetics is not your destiny.

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

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

Genes are not destiny!

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.

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

You can improve your education and even change your environment but what you really ARE was all settled when your parents www born. SELECTED PARENTS WILL HAVE BETTER CHILDREN.

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

Heredity proposes and development disposes.

I don't believe in predestination - except for genetic predilections.

I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

We must believe in free will, we have no choice.

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

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

I think the shape of our bodies has as much to do with the shape of our parents as it does with training.

One of the things about genetics that has become clearer as we've done genomes - as we've worked our way through the evolutionary tree, including humans - is that we're probably much more genetic animals than we want to confess we are.

You're not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

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.

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

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

The implication is that this basic idea we have that we are controlled by our genes is false. It's an idea that turns us into victims. I'm saying we are the creators of our situation. The genes are merely the blueprints. We are the contractors, and we can adjust those blueprints. And we can even rewrite them.