Family traits, like murder, will out. Nature has but so many molds. — Louise Imogen Guiney Copy Share Image
When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man. — Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe Copy Share Image
History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Man is the control experiment of heredity and environment; and since his heredity controls him, he tries to control his environment. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Heredity: the traits that a disobedient child gets from the other parent. — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Several generations of slum environment will produce a slum heredity. — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The line from psychologists is, if you’ve seen it before, it hasn’t killed you yet.” — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
“A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.” — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
Musical expression is never primarily national, but is personal and individual rather. It is so deep, so profound, that it goes beyond… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I may finally call attention to the probability that the association of paternal and maternal chromosomes in pairs and their subsequent separation… — Walter Sutton Copy Share Image
“primary mental abilities and perceptual and motor skills are the most influenced by heredity, while personality traits are the least influenced. If” — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Many races as well as cultural influences of men of all kinds have mixed into any man. To select, for approbation the… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
The philosophical implication of race-thinking is that by offering us the mystery of heredity as an explanation, it diverts our attention from… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides-that of the breeder, the experimenter, the… — Edwin Conklin Copy Share Image
The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest… — H. Bentley Glass Copy Share Image
Neither heredity nor environment determine character. But whether we give in to or overcome the negative messages we are exposed to as… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Cell genetics led us to investigate cell mechanics. Cell mechanics now compels us to infer the structures underlying it. In seeking the… — C. D. Darlington Copy Share Image
This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
That the fundamental aspects of heredity should have turned out to be so extraordinarily simple supports us in the hope that nature… — Thomas Hunt Morgan Copy Share Image
You are not barred from attaining greatness by heredity. No matter who or what your ancestors may have been or how unlearned… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
Recently, results of the Human Genome Project have shattered one of Science's fundamental core beliefs, the concept of genetic determinism. We have… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
“There are species that retain their characteristics even in conditions that are relatively different from their natural ones; other species in similar… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
“Of the contributions made during the essayist period three call for notice: Weismann deserves mention for his useful work in asking for… — William Bateson Copy Share Image
“The things you experience," she continued, "are written on your cells as memories and patterns, which are reprinted again on the next… — Madeleine Thien Copy Share Image
I established the opposite view, that this history of the embryo (ontogeny) must be completed by a second, equally valuable, and closely… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
For the fundamental fact of human psychology is that society, instead of remaining almost entirely inside the individual organism as in the… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
“...imitation supplements inadequate congenital variations in the direction of an instinct, and so, by keeping the creature alive, sets the trend of… — Karl Groos Copy Share Image
“Paul Robin aimed at a higher ideal than merely modern ideas in education. He wanted to demonstrate by actual facts that the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
