Genetics Quote by Alfred Sturtevant

“We should have abided by our larval condition, dispensed with evolution, remained incomplete, delighting in the elemental siesta and calmly consuming ourselves in an…

— Emil Cioran

“however, while the gnats were swarming like locusts”

— M.F. Lorson

“my father encouraged me to enter medicine. He told me it was much nobler to worry about humans than about bugs. But you know,…

— Heather O'Neill

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

“How amazing it was, Holmes mentioned, that such a powerful substance, the chemistry of which was still not completely known, could be produced by…

— Mitch Cullin

“Man has not evolved from the slime that has spawned him…”

— Jeckyl Hyde Together Again

If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study gene organisation…

— Anonymous

“It occurs to me that we crush insects beneath our feet, miracles of creation too, beetles, worms, cockroaches, ants, in their various ways.”

— J.M. Coetzee

“To a good approximation, all species are insects.”

— Anonymous

As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?

— Andrew Cuomo

“You catch a lot more flies with honey than vinegar, as they say, though I warrant you get even more flies with corpses. Flies…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“We’re organisms; we’re conceived, we’re born, we live, we die, and we decay. But as we decay we feed the world of the living:…

— Bill Bass