Genes, the Heart and Destiny
- 23 May 1957
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 256 (21) , 965-969
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm195705232562101
Abstract
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven.SO said Helena in a soliloquy in the first scene of the first act of William Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well.This is my text, much easier for us to subscribe to in this day and age than it was several centuries ago when with highly justified fatalism the same Shakespeare put into Hamlet's mouth the oft quoted lines:There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.In the paganism of ancient days the "fates" held sway, as in the case of . . .Keywords
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