Heredity Quotes - Page 2

• I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sea, Matter, Realizing

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.18, Anchor

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• People do not spring forth out of the blue, fully formed – they become themselves slowly, day by day, starting from babyhood. They are the result of both environment and heredity, and your fictional characters, in order to be believable, must be also.

  Lois Duncan

  Spring, Character, Blue

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• Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer.

  Harold E. Varmus

  Cancer, Age, Rays

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

  Luther Burbank

  Heredity And Environment, Definitions, Ancestry

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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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations. The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.

  William Faulkner

  Drama, Taken, Past

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• Characteristics cling to families.

  Francis Galton

  Characteristics

  Sir Francis Galton (1870). “Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry Into Its Laws and Consequences”, p.5

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• Neither heredity nor environment determine character. But whether we give in to or overcome the negative messages we are exposed to as we wend our way through life is often determined by whether our parents, teachers, mentors and friends exposed us to good examples and morally inspiring ideas.

  Michael Josephson

  Teacher, Character, Ideas

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• You are not barred from attaining greatness by heredity. No matter who or what your ancestors may have been or how unlearned or lowly their station, the upward way is open for you. There is no such thing as inheriting a fixed mental position; no matter how small the mental capital we receive from our parents, it may be increased; no man is incapable of growth.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Men, Greatness, Parent

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Being Great: Personal Self-Help Book of Wallace D. Wattles (Unabridged): From one of The New Thought pioneers, author of The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, How to Get What You Want, Hellfire Harrison, How to Promote Yourself and A New Christ”, p.8, e-artnow

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• For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Blood, Scotland, Poison

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• Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole cause of crime. Endless statistics have been gathered on this subject which seem to show conclusively that property crimes are largely the result of the unequal distribution of wealth. But crime of any class cannot be safely ascribed to a single cause. Life is too complex, heredity is too variant and imperfect, too many separate things contribute to human behavior, to make it possible to trace all actions to a single cause.

  Clarence Darrow

  Class, Poverty, Causes

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• And, I think: I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence. Of the millions, I, too, was potentially everything at birth. I, too, was stunted, narrowed, warped, by my environment, my outcroppings of heredity. I, too, will find a set of beliefs, of standards to live by, yet the very satisfaction of finding them will be marred by the fact that I have reached the ultimate in shallow, two-dimensional living — a set of values.

  Sylvia Plath

  Thinking, Sea, Two

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.18, Anchor

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