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- Nov 07, 2020
Hardwired Quotes
On nature, genes, and instinct.
These hardwired quotes explore how genes, environment, and instinct shape human behavior, a theme also central to Nature quotes.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
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- Nov 07, 2020
Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
A desire for social connection is fundamentally hardwired into our psychology, and so being deprived of it has devastating mental and physical consequences. Yet we live in a society which has become ever more fragmented and atomised.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
Games is like hardwired plumbing in the house of pop. It's not pop itself, its sort of like the behind-the-scenes arteries and capillaries of pop music.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Equity and economic justice are now hardwired into all of our climate policies.
- Message
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oceans of emotion can be transmitted through a text message, an emoji sequence, and a winking semicolon, but humans are hardwired to respond to visuals.
- Mankind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can - music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a dreamer, and I'm a perfectionist, and I love excellence, and that's hardwired in me. But when I was young, I lived in a space for a long time where I only felt insufficient.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My premise is that there's something hardwired into our DNA, that we as a species came and evolved from caves and clans and tribes, and therefore, we as a species care more about the things that are local to us than we care about the things that are 'over there' from us.
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- Nov 07, 2020