Heredity Quotes

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Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies unknown after having… — Jean Rostand
Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods, such as strength,… — Sissela Bok
This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes is as unworked… — George Herbert
That the fundamental aspects of heredity should have turned out to be so extraordinarily simple supports us in the hope that nature may, after all,… — Thomas Hunt Morgan
The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest and most difficult… — H. Bentley Glass
Cell genetics led us to investigate cell mechanics. Cell mechanics now compels us to infer the structures underlying it. In seeking the mechanism of heredity… — C. D. Darlington
We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of heredity, development and… — C. D. Darlington
Increased knowledge of heredity means increased power of control over the living thing, and as we come to understand more and more the architecture of… — Reginald Punnett
From the point of view of the pure morphologist the recapitulation theory is an instrument of research enabling him to reconstruct probable lines of descent;… — E.S. Russell
The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity. — G. Stanley Hall
I may finally call attention to the probability that the association of paternal and maternal chromosomes in pairs and their subsequent separation during the reducing… — Walter Sutton
All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity. — Mark Twain
Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects, and every religious… — Richard Dawkins
Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity… — George Kennedy
Help! I'm being held prisoner by my heredity and environment. — Dennis Allen
Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and Nature herself, obedient… — Paul Gauguin
People do not spring forth out of the blue, fully formed â€“ they become themselves slowly, day by day, starting from babyhood. They are the… — Lois Duncan
Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws… — Ernst Haeckel
We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are… — Paul Dudley White

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