Bruce Lipton Quotes

United States, Biologist
October 21, 1944

Bruce Harold Lipton (born October 21, 1944 at Mount Kisco, New York), is an American developmental biologist best known for promoting the idea that gene expression can be influenced (via epigenetics) by environmental factors i.e. people have a greater impact on their health than genetic research has previously determined. He is the author of the book, The Biology of Belief, and is a former researcher at Stanford University’s School of Medicine.

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I watch Jon Stewart because I need to laugh. Otherwise, life gets too serious. Besides that, I don't watch any news.

Bruce Lipton
- Life
- Serious
The future is to heal back to the mind again. Recognizing that the mind is all powerful - it controls every cell to every degree of its genetic expression.

Bruce Lipton
- Mind
- Future
- Powerful

Your brain sends out vibrations all the time, and your thoughts affect your life and other people's. They pick up these thoughts and get changed by them. That's why, say, a pacifist gets caught up in a riot situation. It's a field of vibrations - you can 'feel' someone else's thoughts when close to them.

Bruce Lipton
- People
- Life
- Up
The planet's hope and salvation lies in the adoption of revolutionary new knowledge being revealed at the frontiers of science.

Bruce Lipton
- Hope
- Science
- Knowledge
The implication is that this basic idea we have that we are controlled by our genes is false. It's an idea that turns us into victims. I'm saying we are the creators of our situation. The genes are merely the blueprints. We are the contractors, and we can adjust those blueprints. And we can even rewrite them.

Bruce Lipton
Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it's cooperation versus competition.

Bruce Lipton
- Nature
- Competition
If your environment keeps draining your energy, it's like having a leaky bank account, where any money you're putting into the bank, such as by seeing an energy healer, keeps slipping out. You have to change your environment, including any harmful beliefs, before the energy can stay high.

Bruce Lipton
- Money
- High
- Energy
Deism is the belief that nature and God are one and the same thing. If you study nature, you're getting insights about God.

Bruce Lipton
- God
- Nature
- Study

One of the first papers I wrote at the University of Wisconsin, in 1977, was on stem cells. I realized that if I changed the environment that these cells were in, I could turn the cells into bone, and if I changed the environment a bit more, they would form fat cells.

Bruce Lipton
- Environment
Because we're not in harmony with the environment, we're destroying the environment that supports us.

Bruce Lipton
- Environment