Environment Quote by Luther Burbank

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

— James Mark Baldwin

Heredity proposes and development disposes.

— Peter Medawar

Your place in life is not fixed by heredity.

— Wallace D. Wattles

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

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

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…

— Edwin Conklin

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

“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

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

— Doug Larson

Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form ... Heredity invents nothing, creates nothing anew; it…

— Alfred Binet

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

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