#genetic

It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#component #distinguishes #factor #genetic #grammar

For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the - class as having one too few. ↗

— Francis Crick

#class #extra #few #genetic #having

Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic thing. But none of us has ever been on medication. ↗

— Natalie Imbruglia

#been #childhood #ever #genetic #had

I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour. ↗

— Andre Agassi

#beats #bucks #favour #genetics #got

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#born #certain #charismatic #dangerous #either

Two premature babies was not a genetic thing; we were just unlucky. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#genetic #just #premature #thing #two

Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago. ↗

— Keith Henson

#came #captured #carried #england #found

There are some people who're all doctors. Is it genetic? ↗

— Aida Turturro

#genetic #people #some #some people #who

Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports. ↗

— Lesley Visser

#blueprint #genetic #guys #love #sports

Longevity-and sanity. Eccentric old ladies on Harleys I can deal with. ↗

— Alison Larkin

#genetics #harleys #life #longevity #old-ladies