We're all a result of our early years and our nature and…

“Trying to separate the contributions of nature and nurture to an attribute is rather like trying to separate the contributions of length and width…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

If you look across a host of measures at adoption studies, fraternal v. identical twin studies, twins-raised-apart studies, the history of early childhood intervention…

— Steve Sailer

There are nature and nurture components to virtually every behavior a human experiences. The research effort lies only in finding the relevant percentages, not…

— John Medina

The distance between a gene and a behavior is of greatest interest to me. The relative contributions of nature and nurture, of nucleotide and…

— John Medina

Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.

— Ovid

The phrase 'nature and nurture' is a convenient jingle of words, for it separates under two distinct heads the innumerable elements of which personality…

— Francis Galton

“Nature and nurture are now generally regarded less as distinct, separable causes and more as interactive, mutually created sets of processes.”

— Stephen A. Mitchell

“Everyone is supposed to be a combination of nature and nurture, their true selves shaped by years of friends and fights and parents and…

— Melissa Albert

“The point to remember is that the issue is not nature versus nurture. It is the balance between nature and nurture. Genes do not…

— John J. Ratey

There haven't been genetic studies on grit, but we often think that challenge is inherited but grit is learned. That's not what science says.…

— Angela Duckworth

“You Do Make a Difference But biology is not destiny. What we now know is that nature and nurture matter. How your child’s temperament…

— Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

In terms of homosexuality, not everyone is prepared for a daily struggle against nature. In some ways, people who challenge and subvert their biologically-determined…

— Bruce LaBruce

I have five kids, and people can say 'nature versus nurture,' but it is nature! Nurture has so little to do with it. I…

— Kenya Barris

Call it nature or nurture, there are differences in how men and women approach professional conduct, and facing these issues head-on will make us…

— Kathryn Minshew

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just…

— Alfred Austin