Scientist Quotes

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.
You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1.
Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.
Politics is applied biology.
The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.
According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another.
All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population.
As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification.
Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.
I did not claim that speciation occurs only in founder populations.
I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location.
In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.
Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species.
It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.
Life is simply the reification of the process of living.
Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select novel adaptive pathways.
Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential.
New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give rise to the next generation.
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