"In this generation, along with the dominating traits, the recessive ones also reappear, their individuality fully revealed, and they do so in the decisively expressed average proportion of 3:1, so that among each four plants of this generation three receive the dominating and one the recessive characteristic."

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Source : "Experiments on Plant Hybrids" (1865)

Gregor Mendel

#Average Quotes #Individuality Quotes #This Generation Quotes

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
“I love New York. It's one of my favorite cities.”

Source : "Coffee break with Victoria Azarenka". Interview with Jon Wertheim, www.si.com. August 28, 2012.
“We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the practice of free-market capitalism. It will provide business and public policy with a powerful new tool for economic development, profitability, and the promotion of the public good.”
“There are people who like short movies, and I think they should just watch our movies on DVD because they can pause, go to the bathroom, eat dinner, and come back to it.”
“The most successful people in the world are people who were rejected more than anybody else.”
“Actually thatâ€™s my secret â€” I canâ€™t even talk about you to anybody because I donâ€™t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.”
“If the sewing societies, the avails of whose industry are now expended in supporting and educating young men for the ministry, were to withdraw their contributions to these objects, and give them where they are more needed, to their advancement of their own sex in useful learning, the next generation might furnish sufficient proof, that in intelligence and ability to master the whole circle of sciences, woman is not inferior to man.”
“Not a softness anywhere about me, Only whalebone and brocade.”

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