Appreciate Quote by Gregor Mendel

The purpose of developing a methodology for what they call genetic control over seed, is mainly to ensure that F1 hybrids are pure and…

— M. S. Swaminathan

An invention or new combination can be successful only if all if the elements necessary for the recombination are present in the culture.

— Peter Farb

Natural selection based on the differential multiplication of variant types cannot exist before there is material capable of replicating itself and its own variations,…

— Hermann Joseph Muller

The basic formulation, or bare-bones mechanics, of natural selection is a disarmingly simple argument, based on three undeniable facts (overproduction of offspring, variation, and…

— Stephen Jay Gould

There is no need to argue if an experiment can be made.

— Henri Etienne Sainte-Claire Deville

The artificial products do not have any molecular dissymmetry; and I could not indicate the existence of a more profound separation between the products…

— Louis Pasteur

Again the message to experimentalists is: Be sensible but don't be impressed too much by negative arguments. If at all possible, try it and…

— Francis Crick

“This was the missing link in Darwin's Logic: reproductive incompatibility, ultimately derived from genetic incompatibility, drove the origin of novel species.”

— Siddharta Mukherjee

I have never made radically different experiments. Whenever I wanted to say something, I said it the way I believed I should.

— Pablo Picasso

“...every new genetically engineered plant is a unique event in nature, bringing its own set of genetic contingencies. This means that the reliability or…

— Michael Pollan

“In Darwin's time no serious attempt had been made to examine the manifestations of variability. A vast assemblage of miscellaneous facts could formerly be…

— William Bateson

Whether or not science can be applied to that mental construct [i.e. the designed entity] is a matter of availability. If there is body…

— Henry Petroski