Robert Winston Quotes

There are many ways in which genes influence the brain.

Of course, genes can't pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought.

The brain is the most complicated organ in the universe. We have learned a lot about other human organs. We know how the heart pumps and how the kidney does what it does. To a certain degree, we have read the letters of the human genome. But the brain has 100 billion neurons. Each one of those has about 10,000 connections.

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.

When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives attachment.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.

The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.

I really believe God has put me in the entertainment business, and he's taken real good care of me along the way. I want to do all I can to give him all the credit.

Oh yeah, I believe in God. I think there's much more evidence that there is a God than that there isn't. I don't believe that Mother Theresa and Hitler go to the same place.

I am a person of faith who believes deeply in the right to exercise religious beliefs.

I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.

For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus.

I always felt God had called me to serve within the church because of what the church stands for. This has always been home.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don't have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

Man doesn't dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God; have your faith in him. That's where my faith lies.

Heritability pertains to the entirety of the genome, not to a single gene.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church.

I don't really believe in anything special, but I respect God. I go to church sometimes, but not often.

Faith is more basic than language or theology.

No one knows what the nongenetic causes of individuality are. Perhaps people are shaped by modifications of genes that take place after conception, or by haphazard fluctuations in the chemical soup in the womb or the wiring up of the brain or the expression of the genes themselves.

Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.

I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.