Nature:
"We do not know what our nature permits us to be" - Jean-Jacques Rousseau in 'Emile, or On Education' (?)
"We must not only observe but listen to the sound of nature" - Lailah Gifty Akita, 'Think Great: Be Great'.
"On brain's blueprint may promote joy more readily than most; in another, pessimism reigns. Whether happiness infuses or eludes a person depends, in part, on the DNA he has chanced to receive" - Thomas Lewis, 'A General Theory of Love'.
"Humans are animals, and like all animals we have idiosyncrasies, quirks and characteristics that distinguish us as a species" - New Scientist.
Nurture:
"We do not know what our nature permits us to be" - Jean-Jacques Rousseau in 'Emile, or On Education'.
"Man is man because he has no instincts, because everything he is and has become he has learned, acquired, from his culture" - Ashley Montagu (Behaviourism).
"You inherit your environment just as much as your genes" - Johnny Rich, 'The Human Script'.
"The mind is a blank slate upon which experience imprints knowledge" - John Locke.
The mind's initial resemblance to "White paper, void of all characteristics" - John Locke.
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