There was a pause. Mendel said: 'It's the devil you don't…

“Six decades and two years, no more than a passing glance of time, separate Mendel's initial experiments on peas and the court-mandated sterilization of…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Mighty men of science and mighty deeds. A Newton who binds the universe together in uniform law; Lagrange, Laplace, Leibnitz with their wondrous mathematical…

— Frederick William Sanderson

Josh Mendel has a secret. Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is.

— Barry Lyga

We don't ask for opinions on our outfit all the time - but for a big of event, like the Emmys, absolutely. I actually…

— Kate Mara

“We were also born," Line said abruptly. Mendel questioned her with a look, and Line tried to clarify her thought: "Born, expelled. Russia conceived…

— Primo Levi

“Mendel had a remarkable nature as a boy. I’m not talking about miracles. Miracles are a burden for a tzaddik, not the proof of…

— Michael Chabon

The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its chemical identification…

— Jacques Monod

originality" is everyone's aim, and novel techniques are as much prized as new scientific discoveries. [T.S.] Eliot states it with surprising naïveté: "It is…

— Randall Jarrell

The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan and their…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

“Not that he [Uzbek] rejected Mendel's proposals or rebelled against his decisions; but he exercised a subtle, passive abrasion against every active thrust: like…

— Primo Levi

“Holding a precious book meant to Mendel what an assignment with a woman might to another man. These moments were his platonic nights of…

— Stefan Zweig

“Once more, he was immersing himself in books, reaching the end of long articles, even going back over paragraphs to make sure he'd grasped…

— Julie Highmore

Even Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein made serious mistakes. But the scientific enterprise arranges things so that teamwork…

— Carl Sagan

There were lots of little boys having their bar mitzvahs all over the world, and they sent me tapes of some of them that…

— Oprah Winfrey

“Just as an astronomer, alone in an observatory, watches night after night through a telescope the myriads of stars, their mysterious movements, their changeful…

— Stefan Zweig