Quotes for All
Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides – that of the breeder, the experimenter, the statistician, the physiologist, the embryologist, the cytologist – but the mechanism of heredity can be studied best by the investigation of the germ cells and their development. Edwin Conklin
Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people. Freeman Dyson
I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs floating in it, and eavesdropped on a pair of Shetland pony breeders. Despondency makes one hanker after lives one never led. Why have you given your life to books, TC? Dull, … Read more
Nature, left to her own devices, finds it hard to produce anything that is ugly. The work of the plant breeder should always be to enhance nature, not to detract from it….we should strive to develop the rose’s beauty in flower, growth and leaf. David C.H. Austin
You could miss someone, but it did no good to fixate on loss. I wished I had the ready words of a Breeder or the ability to comfort with a soft touch. I didn’t. Instead I had daggers and determination. That would have to do. Ann Aguirre
No breeder is above catering to intelligent praise of his dog. Albert Payson Terhune
The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes. Abraham Lincoln