Quotes about Heredity

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Many races as well as cultural influences of men of all kinds have mixed into any man. To select, for approbation the pe — Richard Feynman
Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses fr — Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to d — Jill Lepore
The line from psychologists is, if you’ve seen it before, it hasn’t killed you yet. — Derek Thompson, Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
What is in your blood matters, but not as much as what is in your heart. — Sonja Yoerg, All the Best People
Poverty is hereditary just like power, stupidity, and haemorrhoids. — Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Tram 83
If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no diffic — Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Biology, Vol 1
A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician. — Thomas Paine
A four-letter alphabet called DNA. — Matt Ridley, The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
First LawIn every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any or — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Zoological Philosophy
Malcolm Gladwell can’t help being a pinhead. He was probably born that way. — Gregory Cochran
Of the contributions made during the essayist period three call for notice: Weismann deserves mention for his useful wor — William Bateson, Mendel's Principles of Heredity
I may finally call attention to the probability that the association of paternal and maternal chromosomes in pairs and t — Walter S. Sutton
For it is not cell nuclei, not even individual chromosomes, but certain parts of certain chromosomes from certain cells — Theodor Boveri
There are species that retain their characteristics even in conditions that are relatively different from their natural — Julius Evola, Revolt Against the Modern World
A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors for the expression of all his h — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is the son of his own works. — Cervantes
Heredity is nothing but stored environment. — Luther Burbank
One of the best things people could do for their descendants would be to sharply limit the number of them. — Olin Miller
A man's rootage is more important than his leafage. — Woodrow Wilson