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
Musical expression is never primarily national, but is personal and individual rather. It is so deep, so profound, that it goes beyond… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
“A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.” — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Essentially, Doctor Pascal's only faith was his faith in life. Life was the unique manifestation of the divine. Life was God, the… — Émile Zola 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
Several generations of slum environment will produce a slum heredity. — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
For me, ancestry is just one thing that connects us to people, and feeling connected to other people is generally a good… — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image
“The line from psychologists is, if you’ve seen it before, it hasn’t killed you yet.” — Derek Thompson 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
“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
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
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
History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“Of the contributions made during the essayist period three call for notice: Weismann deserves mention for his useful work in asking for… — William Bateson Copy Share Image
I may finally call attention to the probability that the association of paternal and maternal chromosomes in pairs and their subsequent separation… — Walter Sutton 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
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
“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
“...imitation supplements inadequate congenital variations in the direction of an instinct, and so, by keeping the creature alive, sets the trend of… — Karl Groos 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
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
This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment.… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Man is the control experiment of heredity and environment; and since his heredity controls him, he tries to control his environment. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
