I shall borrow two words used for a slightly different purpose by the great demographer Alfred Lotka to distinguish between the two… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
I established the opposite view, that this history of the embryo (ontogeny) must be completed by a second, equally valuable, and closely… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
The historic idea that the devil tempts men had this remarkable effect, it produced the man of iron who fought; the modern… — Oswald Chambers 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
“He was impressed with his father's fiction and noticed certain stylistic tics that he shared, and figured it was genetic. Why would… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Heredity: the traits that a disobedient child gets from the other parent. — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
We shall therefore take an appropriately correct view of the origin of our life, if we consider our own embryos to have… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
That the fundamental aspects of heredity should have turned out to be so extraordinarily simple supports us in the hope that nature… — Thomas Hunt Morgan Copy Share Image
“There are species that retain their characteristics even in conditions that are relatively different from their natural ones; other species in similar… — Julius Evola 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
The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“Malcolm Gladwell can’t help being a pinhead. He was probably born that way.” — Gregory Cochran Copy Share Image
I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Jem made the little Scottish noise again, and Brianna looked sideways at him. "Are you doing that on purpose?" He looked up… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
The whelp of a wolf must prove a wolf at last, notwithstanding he may be brought up by a man. — Saadi Copy Share Image
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Increased knowledge of heredity means increased power of control over the living thing, and as we come to understand more and more… — Reginald Punnett Copy Share Image
Inside each of us is a unique person resulting from millennia of environment and heredity combined in a way that could never… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of… — C. D. Darlington Copy Share Image
Along with the possibility of extinction of mankind by nuclear war, the central problem of our age has therefore become the contamination… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the a.non.y.muse roller that passed upon my… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
All organisms vary, and it's just folk knowledge. You just have to look around a room of people, and everybody knows that… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
