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.
Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.
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.
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.
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.
Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.
For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.
Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us
All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.
Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.
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.
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
Heredity proposes and development disposes.
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.
I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes.
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.
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.
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.
Heredity is nothing but stored environment.
Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.
Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.
When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man.
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.
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.
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.
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