To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings. — Doug Larson 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
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
All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity… — Elinor Smith Copy Share Image
We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background… — Paul Dudley White 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
Those social behaviors which automatically preclude the building of a democratic world must go - every social limitation of human beings in… — Margaret Mead 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
“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
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
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
“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
Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and… — Paul Gauguin 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
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
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
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
“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
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
Heredity: the traits that a disobedient child gets from the other parent. — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“Malcolm Gladwell can’t help being a pinhead. He was probably born that way.” — Gregory Cochran 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
Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment. — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege. — Mark Twain 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
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
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
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image