The whelp of a wolf must prove a wolf at last, notwithstanding he may be brought up by a man. — Saadi 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
You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment,… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
People do not spring forth out of the blue, fully formed – they become themselves slowly, day by day, starting from babyhood.… — Lois Duncan Copy Share Image
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
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
“The Pike is the meanest and most vicious of fresh-water fishes. This is caused by heredity and environment, or unfortunate social conditions… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form ... Heredity invents nothing, creates nothing… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“if it is true that heredity plays a role in the spiritual dispositions that are imprinted on our souls, Jesus’ declaration that… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods,… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of… — C. D. Darlington 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
Inside each of us is a unique person resulting from millennia of environment and heredity combined in a way that could never… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We shall therefore take an appropriately correct view of the origin of our life, if we consider our own embryos to have… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
“He was impressed with his father's fiction and noticed certain stylistic tics that he shared, and figured it was genetic. Why would… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
“Out of all of the sects in the world, we notice an uncanny coincidence: the overwhelming majority just happen to choose the… — Richard Dawkins 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
Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
All organisms vary, and it's just folk knowledge. You just have to look around a room of people, and everybody knows that… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary,… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
The historic idea that the devil tempts men had this remarkable effect, it produced the man of iron who fought; the modern… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before; his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
...one doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others." "This view… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the a.non.y.muse roller that passed upon my… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Consciousness creates the body. Our bodies are made up of dynamic energy systems that are affected by our diets, relationships, heredity, and… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
I shall borrow two words used for a slightly different purpose by the great demographer Alfred Lotka to distinguish between the two… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
And, I think: I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“When power is discovered, man always turns to it," Bateson wrote darkly. "The science of heredity will soon provide power on stupendous… — Siddharta Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“And so,' smiled the Witcher, 'I have no choice? I have to enter into a pact with you, a pact which should… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
From the point of view of the pure morphologist the recapitulation theory is an instrument of research enabling him to reconstruct probable… — E.S. Russell Copy Share Image
Along with the possibility of extinction of mankind by nuclear war, the central problem of our age has therefore become the contamination… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image