Alive Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Plant breeding has been going on for millennia and it's a gradual process.

— Monty Don

“But if humans can make new varieties of plants and animals, must not nature do so also? This related process is called natural selection.…

— Carl Sagan

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

— Luther Burbank

When two plants, constantly different in one or several traits, are crossed, the traits they have in common are transmitted unchanged to the hybrids…

— Gregor Mendel

Everything that we eat today has been improved through some sort of breeding process. Anytime you do this, you introduce not only the genes…

— Pamela Ronald

“Darwin called such a process artificial, as opposed to natural, selection, but from the flower’s point of view, this is a distinction without a…

— Michael Pollan

Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has…

— Paul Berg

It is a truly wonderful fact - the wonder of which we are apt to overlook from familiarity - that all animals and all…

— Charles Darwin

Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific events in…

— Nina Fedoroff

“In short, we evolved, like other animals, to win the reproduction game. That contest has a single aim, to leave as many descendants as…

— Jared Diamond

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent…

— Luther Burbank

“since many traits can affect an individual's adaptation to it's environment (it's "fitness") natural selection can over eons sculpt an animal or plant into…

— Jerry A. Coyne