Biology Quote by Edwin Conklin

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

— James Mark Baldwin

We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity…

— Paul Dudley White

That the fundamental aspects of heredity should have turned out to be so extraordinarily simple supports us in the hope that nature may, after…

— Thomas Hunt Morgan

Increased knowledge of heredity means increased power of control over the living thing, and as we come to understand more and more the architecture…

— Reginald Punnett

All organisms vary, and it's just folk knowledge. You just have to look around a room of people, and everybody knows that it's true.…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I shall borrow two words used for a slightly different purpose by the great demographer Alfred Lotka to distinguish between the two systems of…

— Peter Medawar

Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.

— Doug Larson

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

— Luther Burbank

Heredity proposes and development disposes.

— Peter Medawar

“This is implied in the assertion that a man shows certain behavior because he was “born that way.” To object to this is not…

— B.F. Skinner

I established the opposite view, that this history of the embryo (ontogeny) must be completed by a second, equally valuable, and closely connected branch…

— Ernst Haeckel

“Dimly, as if through a veil, geneticists were beginning to visualize patterns and themes: threads, strings, maps, crossings, broken and unbroken lines, chromosomes that…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee