Simon LeVay Quotes

• It's important to stress what I didn't find. I did not prove that homosexuality is genetic, or find a genetic cause for being gay. I didn't show that gay men are born that way, the most common mistake people make in interpreting my work. Nor did I locate a gay center in the brain.

  Simon LeVay

  Mistake, Stress, Gay

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• Una de las razones por las que recomiendo el abandono de las creencias religiosas es porque creo que esas creencias son erróneas. No hay pruebas de que nuestro mundo fuera creado por intención divina, de que un dios interceda en los asuntos humanos o de que haya vida después de la muerte. La religión es un resabio de la timorata infancia de la humanidad; ya es hora de que caminemos erguidos y sin miedo, y tomemos las riendas de nuestras propias vidas.

  Simon LeVay

  Religious, Hangover, Thinking

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• Although homosexual behavior is very common in the animal world, it seems to be very uncommon that individual animals have a long-lasting predisposition to engage in such behavior to the exclusion of heterosexual activities. Thus, a homosexual orientation, if one can speak of such thing in animals, seems to be a rarity.

  Simon LeVay

  Animal, Largo, Mundo

  Simon LeVay (1996). “Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research Into Homosexuality”, p.207, MIT Press

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• Scientists are supposed to live in ivory towers. Their darkrooms and their vibration-proof benches are supposed to isolate their activities from the disturbances of common life. What they tell us is supposed to be for the ages, not for the next election. But the reality may be otherwise.

  Simon LeVay

  Reality, Ivory Tower, Age

  "Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research into Homosexuality". Book by Simon LeVay, Cambridge: MIT Press. p. 9, 1996.

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• I felt if I didn't find anything, I would give up a scientific career altogether.

  Simon LeVay

  Giving Up, Careers, Felt

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