When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man.

To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell

— Emile M. Cioran

For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock.…

— Steven Pinker

All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.

— Francis Collins

Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.

— Doug Larson

Recently, results of the Human Genome Project have shattered one of Science's fundamental core beliefs, the concept of genetic determinism. We have been led…

— Bruce H. Lipton

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

— Luther Burbank

Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer.

— Harold E. Varmus

Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form ... Heredity invents nothing, creates nothing anew; it…

— Alfred Binet

I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable…

— Gloria Steinem

For the fundamental fact of human psychology is that society, instead of remaining almost entirely inside the individual organism as in the case of…

— Jean Piaget

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

The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human…

— Gloria Steinem

Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides-that of the breeder, the experimenter, the statistician, the…

— Edwin Conklin