Edwin Grant Conklin Quotes

You can't have life without the genetic code.

Genes are natural resources.

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

Genes are little items that are found in every living thing except Sen. Alfonse D'Amato.

Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.

I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.

A solid foundation in genetics is increasingly important for everyone.

The elementary particles which form the embryo are each drawn from the corresponding structure in the parent, and conserve a sort of remembrance of their previous form, so that in the offspring they will reflect and reproduce a resemblance to the parents ... We can thus readily explain how new species are formed... by supposing that the elementary particles may not always retain the order which they present in the parents, but may fortuitously produce differences, which, multiplying and accumulating, have resulted in the infinite variety of species which we see at the present time.

Some of the exponents of this theory of heredity have attempted to elude the difficulty of placing a whole world of wonders within a body so small and so devoid of physical structure as the germ.

The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

The origin of each of us stems from codes of genetic inheritance.

Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection.

In October, 1838, … I happened to read for amusement Malthus on population, and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence which everywhere goes on from long continuous observation of the habits of animals and plants, it at once struck me that under these circumstances favorable variations would tend to be preserved and unfavorable ones to be destroyed. The result of this would be the formation of new species. Here, then, I had at last got a theory by which to work

… the policy of genes

Any competent biologist is aware of a multitude of problems yet unresolved and of questions yet unanswered. After all, biologic research shows no sign of approaching completion; quite the opposite is true. Disagreements and clashes of opinion are rife among biologists, as they should be in a living and growing science. Antievolutionists mistake, or pretend to mistake, these disagreements as indications of dubiousness of the entire doctrine of evolution. Their favorite sport is stringing together quotations, carefully and sometimes expertly taken out of context, to show that nothing is really established or agreed upon among evolutionists. Some of my colleagues and myself have been amused and amazed to read ourselves quoted in a way showing that we are really antievolutionists under the skin.

If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.

What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?

We have discovered over 95 percent of all the genes that have been discovered by science off the deck of my sailboat.

There is no escaping from the conclusion that nature prevails enormously over nurture.

I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'

Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes.

I loved the idea that biology was logical.

Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.