Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.
Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.
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.
Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.
Heredity has to be considered when pertaining to weight. Some guys might become bigger without really trying.
Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.
To see this kind of heart disease in someone this age is not common, but it usually means there are certain risk factors that allow the plaque to build up in the arteries much earlier than in some others. Heredity can play a large role in that.
Man is the control experiment of heredity and environment; and since his heredity controls him, he tries to control his environment.
Heredity: the traits that a disobedient child gets from the other parent.
Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.
Heredity proposes and development disposes.
Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious.
I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes.