- The convention wisdom is that nature is destiny while nurture is more under our control. However that could be inverted very quickly. With advances in genetics it almost seems easier to control nature than nurture. --- “Where the traditional view had been that ‘nature’ spelt destiny, and ‘nurture’ freedom, now the roles appeared to be reversed. . . . We could more readily control the former i.e., genes, than the latter i.e., the environment—not simply as a long-term goal but as an immediate prospect.” - Siddhartha Mukherjee in [[The Gene]]