Heredity Quotes

66 quotes by 52 authors

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
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
Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment. — Kenneth Scott Latourette
Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery. — James Mark Baldwin
Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings. — Doug Larson
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
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
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
Your place in life is not fixed by heredity. — Wallace D. Wattles
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
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
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
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
All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger. — Francis Collins
To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell — Emile M. Cioran
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
We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege. — Mark Twain
The whelp of a wolf must prove a wolf at last, notwithstanding he may be brought up by a man. — Saadi
Heredity proposes and development disposes. — Peter Medawar
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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