Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

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.

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

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.

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.

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.

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.

I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and pulling their hair because I was there. It was weird. Nobody deserves adulation like that. I tried to explain it to my kids once. I said, 'Mommy used to be kind of cool, kind of like a Britney Spears.'

In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... if it's too loud, you're too old.

We've got to keep an eye on the battle that we face - a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party. And there's only one way to beat and win that war - the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection.

No - I'm quite calm inside during the game for most of the time - not 100%, but generally very calm.

If I can be with you in my dreams I would sleep forever.

My parents were definitely on the incentive side of parenting. Like, they told me that my father had learned to read when he was three. So, of course, I thought I had to, too.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I havent done badly. People wont have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.

There's a darkness under 'The Hangover' because ultimately there's a missing person and it's not really that funny. There's a sort of darkness under it that I love, and still people are laughing as hard if not harder than they did in 'Old School.'

I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.

Surprising people is the key to career longevity for someone like me.

My kid is seven years old and is learning to read and conjugate, but I don't agree with that kind of education because I feel that the concepts are not contextualized... it's interesting to try to make my kid a reflective boy, rather than just a repetitive boy, even if he doesn't agree with me.

I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we're required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection. I believe that we need to slow down.

A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.

Perseverance is the will to hold on a little longer when most would have given up a long time ago.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective single-payer program, it will demonstrate that you can provide quality health care to every man, woman and child in a more cost-effective way.

Experiences might teach us to be cautious, but never to be paranoid. Paranoia is a limiter of destiny

I have a long way to catch up. I have to start with the pros this year, about 20 seconds back.

When people evaluate their life, they compare themselves to a standard of what a successful life is, and it turns out that standard tends to be universal: People in Togo and Denmark have the same idea of what a good life is, and a lot of that has to do with money and material prosperity.