Genetic Endowment Quotes

I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.

Like other organisms, humans have a certain genetic endowment (apparently varying little in the species, not a surprise considering its recent separation from other hominids). That determines what we call their nature.

I'm really, really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes.

What is the nature of the genetic endowment? How does acquisition proceed? Etc. Scientists do routinely ask similar questions about the visual system, system of motor organisation, and others - including, in fact, the digestive system.

I have good genes, and I also do lots of exercises.

I was blessed with good looks and I have good genes.

Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

I've got some genetic gifts.

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.

Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

I'm lucky that I have good genetics. Like you said, it just gets better as I get older.

I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.

I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes.

I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely a gift of genes or whatever, you know? Whatever your pool is.

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.

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.

I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.

I have good genes in my family, so we'll see just how long I'll be around.

Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias, you hardly need to be told that you are a lucky person - you already feel fortunate.

I've got good genes, and my body just always seems to bounce back after my pregnancies.

Some innate capacity - some part of the human genetic endowment - enters into language acquisition. That much is uncontroversial among those who believe that humans are part of the natural world. If it were not true, would be a miracle that my granddaughter reflexively identified some elements of the blooming buzzing confusion as language-related and went on to acquire capacities of the kind that you and I are now exercising, while her pet kitten (chimp, songbird, bee...), presented with exactly the same data, could not take the first step, let alone the later ones.

I take the sporting genes from my dad.

Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.

I was loaded with sheer ability, spelled i-n-h-e-r-i-t-a-n-c-e.