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

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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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• Heredity proposes and development disposes.

  Peter Medawar

  Science, Development, Propose

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Compassion, Government

  Mark Twain (1960). “Mark Twain and the Government”

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• We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party.

  Lewis Thomas

  Party, Dna, Sea

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Success, Nature, Congratulations

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• The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Past, Men, Possible And Impossible

  G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.179, Read Books Ltd

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• Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Inspirational, Funny, Family

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• Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

  Paul Tournier

  Life, Change, Running

  Paul Tournier (1957). “The Meaning of Persons”

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• Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects, and every religious person is loyal to just one of these. ... The overwhelming majority just happen to choose the one their parents belonged to. Not the sect that has the best evidence in its favour, the best miracles, the best moral code, the best cathedral, the best stained-glass, the best music when it comes to choosing from the smorgasbord of available religions, their potential virtues seem to count for nothing compared to the matter of heredity.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Science, Thinking

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• The whelp of a wolf must prove a wolf at last, notwithstanding he may be brought up by a man.

  Saadi

  Men, May, Lasts

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• The philosophical implication of race-thinking is that by offering us the mystery of heredity as an explanation, it diverts our attention from the social and intellectual factors that make up personality.

  Jacques Barzun

  Philosophical, Thinking, Race

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• The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest and most difficult problems still lie ahead. The discoveries of the 1970's about the chemical roots of memory in nerve cells or the basis of learning, about the complex behavior of man and animals, the nature of growth, development, disease and aging will be at least as fundamental and spectacular as those of the recent past.

  H. Bentley Glass

  Memories, Lying, Learning

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• That the fundamental aspects of heredity should have turned out to be so extraordinarily simple supports us in the hope that nature may, after all, be entirely approachable. Her much-advertised inscrutability has once more been found to be an illusion due to our ignorance. This is encouraging, for, if the world in which we live were as complicated as some of our friends would have us believe we might well despair that biology could ever become an exact science.

  Thomas Hunt Morgan

  Believe, Ignorance, Simple

  Thomas Hunt Morgan (1919). “The Physical basis of heredity”

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• This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes is as unworked now as it was in the days of Plato, is, in simple truth, ten times more important to humanity than all the chemistry and physics, all the technical and indsutrial science that ever has been or ever will be discovered.

  George Herbert

  Plato, Knowledge, Science

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• If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies unknown after having discovered the laws of heredity: thirty-five years later, three men rediscover them. But the book that is not written will never be written. The premature death of a great scientist delays humanity; that of a great writer deprives it.

  Jean Rostand

  Book, Science, Men

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• 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 physiologist, the embryologist, the cytologist - but the mechanism of heredity can be studied best by the investigation of the germ cells and their development.

  Edwin Conklin

  Cells, Development, May

  "The Mechanism of Heredity". "Science", Vol. 27, No. 691, January 17, 1908.

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• Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  Family, Self Esteem, Ancestry

  Van Wyck Brooks (1941). “Opinions of Oliver Allston”, New York, Dutton

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