"Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in the hybrid-rather than be represented by plus or minus signs, and put several seasons into throwing doubt upon the concept of immutable hypothetical units of inheritance concocted to account for selected results."

-- Charles Thom

#Ideas Quotes #Doubt Quotes #Inheritance Quotes

“What you seek, you already are.”
“We no longer have the luxury of spending our energy on anything that does not lead us and our families to Christ.”
“In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception”

Source : Gene Stratton-Porter (2007). “Field O' My Dreams: The Poetry of Gene Stratton-Porter”
“The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. Today, scholars no longer limit themselves to the three dimensions of Euclid. The painters have been lead quite naturally, one might say by intuition, to preoccupy themselves with the new possibilities of spatial measurement which, in the language of the modern studios, are designated by the term fourth dimension.”
“My views on birth control are somewhat distorted by the fact that I was seventh of nine children.”
“One must accept the fact that others donâ€™t see what you do.”
“After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.”
“The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.”

Source : Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.54, The Overlook Press

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