Animal Quote by 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

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

— James Mark Baldwin

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

— Luther Burbank

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

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

“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

A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and…

— B. F. Skinner

“There are species that retain their characteristics even in conditions that are relatively different from their natural ones; other species in similar circumstances instead…

— Julius Evola

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

— Doug Larson

Heredity proposes and development disposes.

— Peter Medawar

“But perhaps an even greater principle was at stake, Bateson realized. The flow of biological information was not restricted to heredity. It was coursing…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Man is the control experiment of heredity and environment; and since his heredity controls him, he tries to control his environment.

— Evan Esar