Peter McWilliams Quotes

I think we all have a slightly gay gene inside us, don't we? It might be 0.00001 per cent as mine is, or one per cent as yours is.

We don't really know where human sexual orientations come from yet. What we do know is that the evidence we have that sexual orientation includes an innate component doesn't seem to point to the existence of simple 'gay genes' and 'straight genes.'

I am of the school that believes, for the most part, that gays are born and not made. That is, I believe - and there appears to be significant scientific evidence to back me up - that there is a genetic predisposition to be gay.

With my background and genetic makeup,buddy, you're lucky I'm as normal as I am. (Katra Agrotera)

No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous, but it is symptomatic of our overpoliticized climate that such assertions are given instant credence by gay activists and their media partisans. I think what gay men are remembering is that they were born different.

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.

Ten bajillion product ads notwithstanding, your looks are another thing that's basically genetic.

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.

Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.

I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes.

Some people are genetically programmed to be difficult.

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

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

I guess there have been a few questions about my sexuality, and I'd like to quiet any unnecessary rumors that may be out there. While I prefer to keep my personal life private, I hope the fact that I'm gay isn't the most interesting part of me.

Sex does not exist for me at all. I haven't had a boyfriend for a long time. There were only three or four in my life up until now anyway.

I may have the genetic coding that Im inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way.

Homosexuality is genetically hardwired but race and gender are only ideas. OK. Just trying to keep up.

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

With skin, I really believe it has a lot to do with your genes. And I've been really lucky.

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.

A major contributor to the present-day tendency to accept and encourage homosexuality is Dr. Sigmund Freud.

Superficially it's a problem if homosexuality is genetic - if the difference between people's sexual preferences is genetic - because at least a pure homosexual would be unlikely to reproduce and therefore pass on the genes. So the first question you ask is, is it actually genetic, and the answer is probably to some extent yes.

Our sexual self is a complex combination of our social, cultural, and biological inheritance.

Every cell has certain knowledge. I think knowledge is contained within the genetics, even. I think scientists will find that. I don't think there's a gay gene, though. They may argue that down, but I don't think that, because that's a preference.