Charles Murray Quotes

The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

I really do believe there are things passed down. Behaviour, not just DNA. Psychological make-up. You can see it in dogs. If you want to breed a calm dog, don't get two fighters.

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!

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.

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

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.

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

Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate.

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.

Improvement in social conditions will not compensate for a bad hereditary influence.

We all grow up with inherited genes and inherited sensibilities, and they run very, very deep.

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.

I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence.

Your genetics is not your destiny.

Heredity proposes and development disposes.

The likelihood that inborn differences are one contributor to social status does not mean that it is the only contributor.

Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring.

There's this very interesting and complicated connection between our environment and our genes and the traits that come out of the environment plus genes. And there's huge potential. I mean we see amazing abilities. Marie Curie, Albert Einstein. All sorts of arts, and literature and so forth. These are not typical traits of everybody on earth.

I don't know if people are born with a worldview or if their thinking is a product of their environment.

Statistical differences between races are not automatically due to race— either in the sense of being caused by genetics or being a result of racial discrimination.

I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.