Heredity Quotes

66 Heredity quotes by 52 unique authors

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
When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man. — Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way… — Gloria Steinem
I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes. — Isaac Asimov
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. — Matthew McConaughey
Heredity is nothing but stored environment. — Luther Burbank
Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole cause of crime.… — Clarence Darrow
The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being… — Gloria Steinem
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other. — Laurence J. Peter
We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me… — Lewis Thomas
Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting… — Paul Tournier

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