Family traits, like murder, will out. Nature has but so many molds. — Louise Imogen Guiney Copy Share Image
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer. — Harold E. Varmus 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 adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment. — Kenneth Scott Latourette 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
“The line from psychologists is, if you’ve seen it before, it hasn’t killed you yet.” — Derek Thompson 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
The relationship between heredity and IQ in human beings is well established. But that does not mean that if you have a… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
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
Consciousness creates the body. Our bodies are made up of dynamic energy systems that are affected by our diets, relationships, heredity, and… — Christiane Northrup 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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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 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
We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Malcolm Gladwell can’t help being a pinhead. He was probably born that way.” — Gregory Cochran 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
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
