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Characteristics cling to families.
Heredity is nothing but stored environment.
Heredity proposes and development disposes.
Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.
I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes.
Family traits, like murder, will out. Nature has but so many molds.
Heredity: the traits that a disobedient child gets from the other parent.
Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.
Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer.
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.
History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious.
There are apparently three factors that lead to longevity: heredity, habits, and what your wife will let you get away with.
The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.
Man is the control experiment of heredity and environment; and since his heredity controls him, he tries to control his environment.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this.
The relationship between heredity and IQ in human beings is well established. But that does not mean that if you have a group difference, an ethnic difference, that difference must also be genetic.
I know lots of women who have slim legs but refuse to wear skirts because of unsightly varicose or spider veins. Though heredity plays a role, your genes don't have to doom you to a life of long pants.
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small.
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.
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.
For me, ancestry is just one thing that connects us to people, and feeling connected to other people is generally a good thing, as long as one kind of connection does not have primacy over all the others. Heredity, race and nationhood are not the best criteria by which to judge our fellow humans.
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.
However superficial prevailing views of heredity seem to be, it must be admitted that a person is indeed the bearer of inherited characteristics. This is the one aspect. He must often battle against these inherited traits and rid himself of them in order to bring to fulfillment the talents laid into him before he entered earthly existence.
