For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“Malcolm Gladwell can’t help being a pinhead. He was probably born that way.” — Gregory Cochran Copy Share Image
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger. — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment. — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a… — George Kennedy Copy Share Image
All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Heredity. It’s like going to a fortune-teller and regretting it. As human beings, we tend not to like things we can’t avoid.… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment.… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
The orthodox environmental theories [of heredity] have been accepted not because they have stood up under proper scientific investigations, but because they… — Arthur Jensen Copy Share Image
The relationship between heredity and IQ in human beings is well established. But that does not mean that if you have a… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
Increased knowledge of heredity means increased power of control over the living thing, and as we come to understand more and more… — Reginald Punnett Copy Share Image
When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Individuals and societies are not helpless victims of heredity. We have the power to change - not by looking "down" to nature… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
For me, ancestry is just one thing that connects us to people, and feeling connected to other people is generally a good… — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image
We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“Essentially, Doctor Pascal's only faith was his faith in life. Life was the unique manifestation of the divine. Life was God, the… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
“Jem made the little Scottish noise again, and Brianna looked sideways at him. "Are you doing that on purpose?" He looked up… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
“But perhaps an even greater principle was at stake, Bateson realized. The flow of biological information was not restricted to heredity. It… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its… — Tim Lott Copy Share Image
“This is implied in the assertion that a man shows certain behavior because he was “born that way.” To object to this… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the… — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
“First Law In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
Increasingly, our leaders must deal with dangers that threaten the entire world, where an understanding of those dangers and the possible solutions… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer. — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
There are apparently three factors that lead to longevity: heredity, habits, and what your wife will let you get away with. — W. Bruce Cameron Copy Share Image
To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
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