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Many races as well as cultural influences of men of all kinds have mixed into any man. To select, for approbation the peculiar elements that come from some supposedly Jewish heredity is to open the door to all kinds of nonsense on racial theory.

~ Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman Heredity Heritage Inheritance Jewish Identity Judaism Race Racial Theory Racism Religion

Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes don't think about what constitutes good or evil. They don't care whether we are happy or unhappy. We're just means to an end for them. The only thing they think about is what is most efficient for them.

~ Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami Genetics Heredity Humanity Science

History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what do do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.

~ Jill Lepore

Jill Lepore Change Heredity History Inheritance Values

The line from psychologists is, if you’ve seen it before, it hasn’t killed you yet.

~ Derek Thompson

Derek Thompson Familiarity Heredity History Popular Science Psychology Survival

What is in your blood matters, but not as much as what is in your heart.

~ Sonja Yoerg

Sonja Yoerg Family Heredity Inspirational Mental Illness

Poverty is hereditary just like power, stupidity, and haemorrhoids.

~ Fiston Mwanza Mujila

Fiston Mwanza Mujila Heredity Poverty Power Stupidity

If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.

~ Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer Analogy Biology Cell Common Ancestor Embryology Evolution Heredity Homo Sapiens Human Millions Of Years Origin Science Understanding Universal Common Ancestor

A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.

~ Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine Government Heredity King Ruling

A four-letter alphabet called DNA.

~ Matt Ridley

Matt Ridley Evolution Genetics Heredity

First LawIn every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually strengthens, develops and enlarges that organ, and gives it a power proportional to the length of time it has been so used; while the permanent disuse of any organ imperceptibly weakens and deteriorates it, and progressively diminishes its functional capacity, until it finally disappears.Second LawAll the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race has long been placed, and hence through the influence of the predominant use or permanent disuse of any organ; all these are preserved by reproduction to the new individuals which arise, provided that the acquired modifications are common to both sexes, or at least to the individuals which produce the young.

~ Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Biology Evolution Function Genetics Heredity Influence Natural Selection Naturalism Nature Reproduction Science

Malcolm Gladwell can’t help being a pinhead. He was probably born that way.

~ Gregory Cochran

Gregory Cochran Fools Heredity Malcolm Gladwell Stupidity

Of the contributions made during the essayist period three call for notice: Weismann deserves mention for his useful work in asking for the proof that acquired characters or, to speak more precisely, parental experience can really be transmitted to the offspring. The ocurrence of progressive adaptation by transmission of effects of use had seemed so natural to Darwin and his contemporaries that no proof of the physiological reality of the henomenon was thought necessary. Weismann's challenge revealed the utter inadequacy of the evidence on which the beliefs were based. They are doubtless isolated observations which may be interpreted as favouring the belief in these transmissions, but such meagre indications as exist are by general consent admitted to be too slight to be of much assistance in the attempt to understand how the more complex adaptive mechanisms arose.

~ William Bateson

William Bateson August Weismann Biology Charles Darwin Darwin Heredity Natural Science Weismann

I may finally call attention to the probability that the association of paternal and maternal chromosomes in pairs and their subsequent separation during the reducing division as indicated above may constitute the physical basis of the Mendelian law of heredity.

~ Walter S. Sutton

Walter S. Sutton Biology Boveri Sutton Chromosome Theory Chromosome Geneticist Genetics Heredity Inheritance Probability Science

For it is not cell nuclei, not even individual chromosomes, but certain parts of certain chromosomes from certain cells that must be isolated and collected in enormous quantities for analysis; that would be the precondition for placing the chemist in such a position as would allow him to analyse [the hereditary material] more minutely than [can] the morphologists ... For the morphology of the nucleus has reference at the very least to the gearing of the clock, but at best the chemistry of the nucleus refers only to the metal from which the gears are formed.

~ Theodor Boveri

Theodor Boveri Biology Cell Chemistry Chromosome Genetics Heredity Morphology Nucleus Science

There are species that retain their characteristics even in conditions that are relatively different from their natural ones; other species in similar circumstances instead become extinct; otherwise what takes place is racial mixing with other elements in which no assimilation or real evolution occurs. The result of this interbreeding closely resembles Mendel’s laws concerning heredity: once it disappears in the phenotype, the primitive element survives in the form of a separated, latent heredity that is capable of cropping up in sporadic apparitions, even though it is always endowed with a character of heterogeneity in regard to the superior type.

~ Julius Evola

Julius Evola Biology Extinction Heredity
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