Family traits, like murder, will out. Nature has but so many molds. — Louise Imogen Guiney 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
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Malcolm Gladwell can’t help being a pinhead. He was probably born that way.” — Gregory Cochran 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
We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.” — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Heredity: the traits that a disobedient child gets from the other parent. — Luther Burbank 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
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
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
“Heredity. It’s like going to a fortune-teller and regretting it. As human beings, we tend not to like things we can’t avoid.… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
The orthodox environmental theories [of heredity] have been accepted not because they have stood up under proper scientific investigations, but because they… — Arthur Jensen 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
Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a… — George Kennedy 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
“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
We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to… — Lewis Thomas 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
Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
You are not barred from attaining greatness by heredity. No matter who or what your ancestors may have been or how unlearned… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
Recently, results of the Human Genome Project have shattered one of Science's fundamental core beliefs, the concept of genetic determinism. We have… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole… — Clarence Darrow 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
“The things you experience," she continued, "are written on your cells as memories and patterns, which are reprinted again on the next… — Madeleine Thien 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
For the fundamental fact of human psychology is that society, instead of remaining almost entirely inside the individual organism as in the… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
“But perhaps an even greater principle was at stake, Bateson realized. The flow of biological information was not restricted to heredity. It… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“Paul Robin aimed at a higher ideal than merely modern ideas in education. He wanted to demonstrate by actual facts that the… — Emma Goldman 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
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