The fruit flies we work with have the equivalent of about…

When people play action games, they're changing the brain's pathway responsible for visual processing. These games push the human visual system to the limits,…

— Daphne Bavelier

“n the treetops, this powerful vision was built for speed—seeing and reacting quickly. On the open grassland, it was the opposite. Safety and finding…

— Robert Greene

Although finding fruit flies in your wine or beer can be a bit annoying, I hope people will pause to admire the tenacity of…

— Michael Dickinson

“The ball runs faster than any human, so it’s the ball that has to do the running!’ which, in seventeen words, just about encapsulates…

— Guillem Balague

“A computer lets you make more mistakes faster then any other human invention in history...with the possible exception of handguns and tequila.”

— Mitch Ratcliffe

A computer can process information and engage a weapon infinitely faster than a human soldier.

— Tom Malinowski

“Just listen to this: take two fruit flies and leave them in ideal living conditions for a year - equivalent to 25 generations for…

— Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson

The three of us have worked on the development of the small and totally harmless fruit fly, Drosophila. This animal has been extremely cooperative…

— Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

The latest report says the results of an investigation will be released in three or four weeks. That's a long time for fruit flies…

— Denis Boyles

“Richard wrote a diary entry in his head. Dear Diary, he began. On Friday I had a job, a fiancée, a home, and a…

— Neil Gaiman

Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes.

— Robert Mankoff

Whenever I get down about life going by too quickly, what helps me is a little mantra that I repeat to myself: at least…

— Ray Romano

After observing mutations in fruit flies for many years, Professes Goldschmidt fell into despair. The changes, he lamented, were so hopelessly micro [insignificant] that…

— Norman Macbeth

Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough omnivorous bacteria…

— K. Eric Drexler

Time flies like an arrow, and fruit flies like a banana.

— Alec Straub