“Mendel hated motorists. Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“Mendel had a remarkable nature as a boy. I’m not talking about miracles. Miracles are a burden for a tzaddik, not the… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Just as an astronomer, alone in an observatory, watches night after night through a telescope the myriads of stars, their mysterious movements,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“Six decades and two years, no more than a passing glance of time, separate Mendel's initial experiments on peas and the court-mandated… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“The experiments progress slowly," Mendel wrote. "At first a certain amount of patience was needed, but I soon found that matters went… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“We were also born," Line said abruptly. Mendel questioned her with a look, and Line tried to clarify her thought: "Born, expelled.… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
We don't ask for opinions on our outfit all the time - but for a big of event, like the Emmys, absolutely.… — Kate Mara Copy Share Image
“He was surprised, as always, to witness a new degradation, to find another display of wretchedness original enough to bring tears to… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
originality" is everyone's aim, and novel techniques are as much prized as new scientific discoveries. [T.S.] Eliot states it with surprising naïveté:… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“There is nothing opposed in Biometry and Mendelism . Your husband and I worked that out at Peppards [on the Chilterns] and… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
“Perhaps Gregor Mendel was inspired by Lucretius: “It may also happen at times that children take a after their grandparents, or recall… — Lucretius Carus Titus Copy Share Image
“Mighty men of science and mighty deeds. A Newton who binds the universe together in uniform law; Lagrange, Laplace, Leibnitz with their… — Frederick William Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Holding a precious book meant to Mendel what an assignment with a woman might to another man. These moments were his platonic… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Although no explanation can be expected to be satisfactory, it remains a possibility among others that Mendel was deceived by some assistant… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Even Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein made serious mistakes. But the scientific enterprise arranges things so… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Not that he [Uzbek] rejected Mendel's proposals or rebelled against his decisions; but he exercised a subtle, passive abrasion against every active… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
“Once more, he was immersing himself in books, reaching the end of long articles, even going back over paragraphs to make sure… — Julie Highmore Copy Share Image
There were lots of little boys having their bar mitzvahs all over the world, and they sent me tapes of some of… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“There was a pause. Mendel said: 'It's the devil you don't know that gets you.” — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“changeful, occasionally wise and sympathetic. He knew how intelligent men could be broken by the stupidity of their superiors, how weeks of… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
I thought that I had found something new. But then I convinced myself that the Abbot Gregor Mendel in Brünn, had, during… — Carl Correns Copy Share Image
“Gregor Mendel’s years of research with green and yellow peas showed that such a thing must exist. Colors and other traits vary… — James Gleick Copy Share Image