Rudolf Steiner

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.

Austrian Philosopher

Paul Tournier

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.

Swiss Author

Paul Dudley White

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.

American Scientist

Robert Green Ingersoll

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.

American Lawyer

Ernst Haeckel

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.

German Scientist

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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.

Roman Statesman

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.

American Clergyman

Kenneth Scott Latourette

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

American Historian

James Mark Baldwin

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

American Philosopher

Luther Burbank

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

American Environmentalist

Used to describe characteristics, like appearance or behavior, that are passed from parents to children.

Family Traits

Indicates qualities not gained from experience, but from the genes received at birth.

Not Learned

Often cited in debates over the influence of genetics versus the environment.

Nature Over Nurture

Emphasizes the role of genes and DNA which are studied in biology and medicine.

Genetics Focus

Commonly used in scientific and educational settings to discuss the inheritance of traits.

Academic Term

Relates to the understanding and diagnosis of inheritable diseases through family history.

Disease Link

Used in legal contexts to talk about property or titles passed down through family lines.

Legal Term

Relates to inheriting money or assets and is often associated with nobility or wealthy families.

Wealth Inheritance

Mainly appears in formal documents, such as wills or legal texts, not casual conversation.

Formal Use

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What will humans look...

 like, say, people. These days, scientists know a lot more about genetics and heredity. And there are many other ways in which some characteristics are inherited. But, it all started with Mendel and his peas.

How Mendel's pea plants...

 the biological programming behind all life forms. But what exactly is the science of genetics? And what does its future hold? Genetics is the study of heredity.