Geneticist Quotes

“Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.”
― Edmund Beecher Wilson

“I may finally call attention to the probability that the association of paternal and maternal chromosomes in pairs and their subsequent separation during the reducing division as indicated above may constitute the physical basis of the Mendelian law of heredity.”
― Walter S. Sutton

“There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must have been Drosophila.”
― Alfred Henry Sturtevant, A History of Genetics

“Geneticists are a group of mathematicians who have taken over the Neanderthal Paleontology Guild. They call the shots now.”
― Bill Gaede, Why God Doesn't Exist

“A geneticist is a geek who claims to have proven through regression analyses that a Neanderthal had sex with your great-grandmother 50,000 years ago.”
― Bill Gaede, Why God Doesn't Exist

“After a handful of geeks sequenced the Neanderthal genome and found a 2% match, they opened the flood gates to hundreds of geneticists that now make a living telling you what diseases you inherited from an extinct Arctic ape.”
― Bill Gaede, Why God Doesn't Exist