Genetics Quotes

128 quotes by 111 authors

The secret to genius is not genetics but daily practice married with relentless perseverance. — Robin Sharma
Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and the actual findings… — Ernst Mayr
The science of genetics is in a transition period, becoming an exact science just as the chemistry in the times of Lavoisier, who made the… — Wilhelm Johannsen
Beadle believed that genetics were inseparable from chemistry-more precisely, biochemistry. They were, he said, "two doors leading to the same room." — Warren Weaver
Cell genetics led us to investigate cell mechanics. Cell mechanics now compels us to infer the structures underlying it. In seeking the mechanism of heredity… — C. D. Darlington
Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science has proved correct. Politicians believe… — Lancelot Hogben
I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me, and followed me around in my dreams. — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
If A denotes one of the two constant traits, for example, the dominating one, a the recessive, and the Aa the hybrid form in which… — Gregor Mendel
In the gametes of an individual hybrid the Anlagen for each individual parental character are found in all possible combinations but never in a single… — Carl Correns
In this generation, along with the dominating traits, the recessive ones also reappear, their individuality fully revealed, and they do so in the decisively expressed… — Gregor Mendel
It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and… — Maurice Wilkins
My experiments with single traits all lead to the same result: that from the seeds of hybrids, plants are obtained half of which in turn… — Gregor Mendel
The three of us have worked on the development of the small and totally harmless fruit fly, Drosophila. This animal has been extremely cooperative in… — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must have been Drosophila. — Alfred Sturtevant
We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of heredity, development and… — C. D. Darlington
When two plants, constantly different in one or several traits, are crossed, the traits they have in common are transmitted unchanged to the hybrids and… — Gregor Mendel
Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could easily have had… — Richard Dawkins
There is something outrageous about such a huge body of evidence being put together, then being confirmed in all kinds of other scientific disciplines, particularly… — Matthew Chapman
A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's… — May Sarton
When I turned 30, due to my father's heart history and my family genetics, I vowed to start seeing a cardiologist every year and just… — Jennie Garth

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