A Quote by Luther Burbank

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

Luther Burbank

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Luther Burbank
American - Environmentalist
March 7, 1849 - April 11, 1926

Man is the control experiment of heredity and environment; and since his heredity controls him, he tries to control his environment.

Evan Esar

Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form ... Heredity invents nothing, creates nothing anew; it has no imagination.

Alfred Binet

I shall borrow two words used for a slightly different purpose by the great demographer Alfred Lotka to distinguish between the two systems of heredity enjoyed by man: endosomatic or internal heredity for the ordinary or genetical heredity we have in common with animals; and exosomatic or external heredity for the non-genetic heredity that is peculiarly our own - the heredity that is mediated through tradition, by which I mean the transfer of information through non-genetic channels from one generation to the next.

Peter Medawar

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

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

Help! I'm being held prisoner by my heredity and environment.

Dennis Allen

Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.

Francis Collins

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

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

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

Several generations of slum environment will produce a slum heredity.

Albion Fellows Bacon

Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

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

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

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