Biological Influence Quotes

I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

It's insanely difficult for people to accept the extent to which we are biological organisms without agency.

However diligent she may be, however dedicated, no mother can escape the larger influences of culture, biology, fate . . . until we can actually live in a society where mothers and children genuinely matter, ours is an essentially powerless responsibility. Mothers carry out most of the work orders, but most of the rules governing our lives are shaped by outside influences.

When the brain activity is kindled in the right spot, people hear voices. If a physician prescribes an anti-epileptic medication, the seizures go away and the voices disappear. Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.

Hormones are very powerful things. We are helpless in their wake.

Violent People: Are they the cause of violence or are their genes?

Whereas in the past people have seen the two sexes as almost incomprehensibly different, now there is a group of people that are explaining the connections between both the genders, literally in the way their biology informs some of their expression.

Of course language arose in a Darwinian biological world, because that's all there is, but that world relates only superficially to the pop-biology that circulates informally.

I didn't study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.

Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.

Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.

I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons.

Consumer behaviour is a powerful realm from which to explore our biological heritage.