Heredity Quotes

Increased knowledge of heredity means increased power of control over the living thing, and as we come to understand more and more the architecture of the plant or animal we realize what can and what cannot be done towards modification or improvement.

Reginald Punnett

Knowledge, Mean, Science

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Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Children, Heredity And Environment, Savages

Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before; his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same.

Clarence Darrow

Children, Believe, Emotional

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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 is determined by his heredity.

Henry Louis Gates

Life, Success, World

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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 that could never happen before or again.

Gloria Steinem

Believe, Unique, Self

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

Doug Larson

Family, Responsibility, Unity

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For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

Dale Carnegie

Kindness, Thoughtful, Play

Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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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

Inspirational, Positive, Heredity And Environment

Harry Emerson Fosdick (1971). “The Real Problems of Real People: Solutions for Christians”

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All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.

Francis Collins

Gun, Environment, Illness

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Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.

Louis L'Amour

Today, Tomorrow, Chakra

Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.290, Bantam

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Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Character, Race, Habit

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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 of the other parent

Elinor Smith

Children, Heredity And Environment, Parent

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Heredity proposes and development disposes.

Peter Medawar

Science, Development, Propose

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I may finally call attention to the probability that the association of paternal and maternal chromosomes in pairs and their subsequent separation during the reducing division as indicated above may constitute the physical basis of the Mendelian law of heredity.

Walter Sutton

Science, Law, Attention

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I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes.

Isaac Asimov

Lucky, Break, Sweepstakes

Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books

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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 who is a combination of heredity and environment.

Gloria Steinem

Inspirational, Unique, Heredity And Environment

Source: bigthink.com

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From the point of view of the pure morphologist the recapitulation theory is an instrument of research enabling him to reconstruct probable lines of descent; from the standpoint of the student of development and heredity the fact of recapitulation is a difficult problem whose solution would perhaps give the key to a true understanding of the real nature of heredity.

E.S. Russell

Nature, Real, Science

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We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself.

Paul Dudley White

Practice Of Medicine, Important, Experience

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Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

Luther Burbank

Heredity And Environment, Definitions, Ancestry

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Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

James Mark Baldwin

Modification, Machinery

Princeton University, James Mark Baldwin (1896). “Contributions to Psychology”

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Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

Men, Body, Heredity And Environment

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When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man.

Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe

Men, Want, Honest

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Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.

Ernst Haeckel

Law, Connections, Branches

ernst haeckel “the riddle of the universe”

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Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.

George Kennedy

War, Loss, Umpires

"Movies, Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids". audiologyonline.com interview, www.audiologyonline.com. May 2, 2005.

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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 nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

Mark Twain

Names, Training, Opinion

Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.143, Createspace Independent Pub

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