Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

Increased knowledge of heredity means increased power of control over the living thing, and as we come to understand more and more the architecture…

— Reginald Punnett

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Harold E. Varmus

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

— Luther Burbank

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

— Doug Larson

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

— Francis Collins

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

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

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

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

— Emile M. Cioran