Luis Ambriz > Luis's Quotes

“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”
― Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle

“If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.
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― Robert M. Sapolsky

“We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons

“Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.”
― Robert M Sapolsky, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

“The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.”
― Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

“Poverty may be powerful enough to swamp the influence of variants in our DNA.”
― Carl Zimmer, She Has Her Mother's Laugh: What Heredity Is, Is Not, and May Become

“From each according to their ability, to each according to their need.”
― Karl Marx

“I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.”
― Robert Sapolsky

“Deep in their rat tendons, rats know history.”
― Robert Sullivan, Rats: Observations on the History and Habits of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants