Accordingly Quote by Michael Dickinson

We discovered that fruit flies alter course in less than one one-hundredth of a second, 50 times faster than we blink our eyes, which…

— Michael Dickinson

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

When you see a fly flitting around your hair or your potato salad, you might see an annoyance. But in my lab, you really…

— Michael Dickinson

If flies are a great model, they're a great model for flies. These animals, you know, they're not like us. We don't fly. We…

— Michael Dickinson

“Nevertheless, in a few particular tissues of the fruit fly, these”

— Chris R. Calladine

It is difficult, but intriguing, to imagine seeing the world as a fly might. First, flies don't have nearly the same visual resolution that…

— Michael Dickinson

“The spiraling flights of moths appear haphazard only because of the mechanisms of olfactory tracking are so different from our own. Using binocular vision,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

When it first notices an approaching threat, a fly's body might be in any sort of posture depending on what it was doing at…

— Michael Dickinson

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

“A conscious fruit fly would have to confront exactly the same difficulties, the same kind of insoluble problems as man.”

— Emil Cioran

Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.

— Blaise Pascal

People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is…

— Berthold Auerbach