“ It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended but the glory belongs to our ancestors. Plutarch
“ The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee A clover anytime to him Is aristocracy. Emily Dickinson
“ One of the best things people could do for their descendants would be to sharply limit the number of them. Olin Miller
“ The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato - the only good belonging to him is underground. Thomas Overbury
“ 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 wo… Theodor Boveri
“ 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 c… Walter S. Sutton
“ 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 do… Richard Feynman
“ 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… Jill Lepore
“ It is true that humans have physical differences, and some of those differences are spread geographically across the plant. But clinging to old notions about race won't help us understand the nature o… Carl Zimmer
“ 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 ev… Haruki Murakami
