Thomas Hunt Morgan

Some things are better done than described.

— Thomas Hunt Morgan

One of the most amazing developments in the history of biology.

— Thomas Hunt Morgan

Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.

— Thomas Hunt Morgan

“Except for the rare cases of plastid inheritance, the inheritance of all known cofactors can be sufficiently accounted for by the presence…

— Thomas Hunt Morgan

The media has enormous power. The media is undergoing huge changes now. It seemed like it's time to step back and look…

— Thomas Hunt Morgan

Within the period of human history we do not know of a single instance of the transformation of one species into another…

— Thomas Hunt Morgan

The egg of every species of animal or plant carries a definite number of bodies called chromosomes. The sperm carries the same…

— Thomas Hunt Morgan

For each chromosome contributed by the sperm there is a corresponding chromosome contributed by the egg, there are two chromosomes of each…

— Thomas Hunt Morgan

That the fundamental aspects of heredity should have turned out to be so extraordinarily simple supports us in the hope that nature…

— Thomas Hunt Morgan

Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as…

— Thomas Hunt Morgan