Heredity And Environment Quotes

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

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

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us

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

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.