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William Bateson Quotes

1861–1926 England

William Bateson (8 August 1861 – 8 February 1926) was an English geneticist, most noted as the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity and biological inheritance, and the chief populariser of the ideas of Gregor Mendel following their rediscovery in 1900 by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns.

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Memory is a mystery as deep as any that even psychology can propound.

Problems In Genetics (1913)

Our knowledge of the nature and properties of living things is far too meagre to justify any such attempts.

Problems In Genetics (1913)

The concept of evolution as proceeding through the gradual transformation of masses of individuals by the accumulation of impalpable changes is one that the study of genetics shows immediately to be false.

Mendel's Principles of Heredity (1913)

That the variations are controlled by physiological law, we have now experimental proof; but that this control is guided ever so little in response to the needs of adaptation there is not the smallest sign.

Mendel's Principles of Heredity (1913)

In the light of the new knowledge various plausible, but frequently unsatisfying, suggestions put forward, especially by Wallace, Weismann, and their followers, as probable accounts of evolutionary progress, must be finally abandoned.

Mendel's Principles of Heredity (1913)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Bateson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.