"I thought that I had found something new. But then I convinced myself that the Abbot Gregor Mendel in Brünn, had, during the sixties, not only obtained the same result through extensive experiments with peas, which lasted for many years, as did de Vries and I, but had also given exactly the same explanation, as far as that was possible in 1866."

-- Carl Correns

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“The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.”

Source : Van Wyck Brooks (1958). “From a writer's notebook”
“Control thought-forms are the basis of our deepest moral crisis.”
“The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.”
“Nature herself does not distinguish between what seed it receives. It grows whatever seed is planted; this is the way life works. Be mindful of the seeds you plant today, as they will become the crop you harvest.”
“Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.”

Source : "Unterweysung der Messung (A Course on the Art of Measurement)". Book by Albrecht Durer, 1525.
“Mysticismâ€”Magic and Yogaâ€”is the means, therefore, to a new universal life, richer, greater and more full of resource than ever before, as free as sunlight, as gracious as the unfolding of a rose. It is for man (and woman) to take.”
“Salvation is the entire universe being brought back into harmony with its maker.”
“Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation.”

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