Gregor Mendel — "I have been called a dreamer, but the numbers do not dream."

"It requires indeed some courage to undertake a labor of such far-reaching extent; this appears, however, to be the only right way by which we can finally reach the solution of a question the importanc…"

"It is indeed a pity that the results of the experiments cannot yet be published, as I have not yet succeeded in obtaining the desired number of generations."

"That no generally applicable law of the formulation and development of hybrids has yet been successfully formulated can hardly astonish anyone who is acquainted with the extent of the task and who can…"

"The constant characters which appear in the various generations of a hybrid are those which are transmitted unchanged from the parental plants."

"The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used."