"Heredity provides for the modification of its own…" — James Mark Baldwin

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• Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann… — Jean Rostand
• Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education;… — Sissela Bok
• This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all… — George Herbert
• That the fundamental aspects of heredity should have turned out to be so extraordinarily simple supports us in the hope… — Thomas Hunt Morgan
• The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless,… — H. Bentley Glass
• Cell genetics led us to investigate cell mechanics. Cell mechanics now compels us to infer the structures underlying it. In… — C. D. Darlington
• We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential… — C. D. Darlington
• Increased knowledge of heredity means increased power of control over the living thing, and as we come to understand more… — Unknown Author
• From the point of view of the pure morphologist the recapitulation theory is an instrument of research enabling him to… — Unknown Author
• The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations… — G. Stanley Hall
• I may finally call attention to the probability that the association of paternal and maternal chromosomes in pairs and their… — Unknown Author

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