Heredity Quotes
66 quotes by 52 authors
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Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one mutation make a…
— Lynn Margulis
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It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the novel with perhaps…
— Allan Massie
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Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.
— Kenneth Scott Latourette
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Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.
— James Mark Baldwin
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Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.
— Doug Larson
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Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side…
— Elinor Smith
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You are not barred from attaining greatness by heredity. No matter who or what your ancestors may have been or how unlearned or lowly their…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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Your place in life is not fixed by heredity.
— Wallace D. Wattles
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When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock. To…
— Steven Pinker
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Increasingly, our leaders must deal with dangers that threaten the entire world, where an understanding of those dangers and the possible solutions depends on a…
— Isaac Asimov
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Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as…
— Mark Twain
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Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides-that of the breeder, the experimenter, the statistician, the physiologist,…
— Edwin Conklin
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All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.
— Francis Collins
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To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell
— Emile M. Cioran
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The philosophical implication of race-thinking is that by offering us the mystery of heredity as an explanation, it diverts our attention from the social and…
— Jacques Barzun
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We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.
— Mark Twain
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The whelp of a wolf must prove a wolf at last, notwithstanding he may be brought up by a man.
— Saadi
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Heredity proposes and development disposes.
— Peter Medawar
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The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In other words, it…
— Henry Louis Gates
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