“The genetic stage of a gene pool can be identified by the personality characteristics of the local God. Jehovah of Genesis is a low-level barbarian macho punk God. He boastfully claims to have created the heaven and the stars and the world, but provides no technical details or replicable blueprints. His preoccupations, whims, anxieties, jealousies, rules and hatred of women are primitive mammalian brain. His petty prides are primate.” WorldHeavenStarsLevelsBrainStagePridePersonalityAnxietyLowsHatredClaimsDetailsLocalsCharacteristicsPoolGenesPunkPrimitivePettyGenesisWhimBarbariansPreoccupationJehovahBlueprintsMachoPrimatesLow Level Book:Evolutionary Agents Source: Evolutionary Agents
“We will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more immediately interest us lies between these extremes, in the middle range we all inhabit between our genes and our stars.” ShouldLyingStarsInterestSpaceMiddleExtremesRangeGenesCompounds Author:Nicholas A. Christakis
“All of the rocky and metallic material we stand on, the iron in our blood, the calcium in our teeth, the carbon in our genes were produced billions of years ago in the interior of a red giant star. We are made of star stuff.” YearsMadeStarsStuffBloodMaterialsRedYears AgoBillionsTeethGiantsIronGenesCarbonInteriorsMetallicCalcium Book:Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective Source: Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective
“David Epstein, the author of the best book on athletics in recent memory - "The Sports Gene" - wrote to me to say that he thinks I'm being overly generous. He points out that, for years, there used to be an "all-star challenge" on television, in which the best professional athletes from a variety of sports competed in a kind of makeshift decathlon.” ThinkingYearsKindBookUsedStarsSportsChallengesMemoriesTelevisionAthleteUsed To BeVarietyGenerousGenesAthleticsProfessional AthleteAll StarsDecathlon Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“Whether we live to a vigorous old age lies not so much in our stars or in our genes but in ourselves.” AgeLyingStarsOld AgeGenesVigorous Author:George Vaillant