Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will.

Uniqueness is the commodity of glut.

Every minute, every second, the pattern of genes being expressed in your brain changes, often in direct or indirect response to events outside the body. Genes are the mechanisms of experience.

Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative.

You need to understand how human beings bring together their brains and enable their ideas to combine and recombine, to meet and, indeed, to mate. In other words, you need to understand how ideas have sex.

Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race

The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.