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“The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its chemical identification by Avery (confirmed by Hershey), and the elucidation by Watson and Crick of the structural basis of its replicative invariance, are without any doubt the most important discoveries ever made in biology. To this must be added the theory of natural selection, whose certainty and full significance were established only by those later theories.”
― Jacques Monod, Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology

“There is nothing opposed in Biometry and Mendelism. Your husband and I worked that out at Peppards [on the Chilterns] and you will see it referred in the Biometrika memoir. The Mendelian formula leads up to the 'ancestral law'. What we fought against was the slovenliness in applying Mendel's categories and asserting that such formulae apply in cases when they did not.”
― Karl Pearson

“Bir kez baÅŸtan keÅŸfedilmek, bilim insanının ileriyi görme becerisinin tescilidir. Üç kez baÅŸtan keÅŸfedilmek ise hakarettir. 1900'de, üç aylık bir sürede birbirinden bağımsız yayımlanan üç makalenin Mendel'in çalışmasıyla aynı noktaya varmış olması, çalışmalarını 30 yıldır görmezden gelen biyologların nasıl miyop olduklarının göstergesiydi.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

“Mighty men of science and mighty deeds. A Newton who binds the universe together in uniform law; Lagrange, Laplace, Leibnitz with their wondrous mathematical harmonies; Coulomb measuring our electricity... Faraday, Ohm, Ampère, Joule, Maxwell, Hertz, Röntgen; and in another branch of science, Cavendish, Davy, Dalton, Dewar; and in another, Darwin, Mendel, Pasteur, Lister, Sir Ronald Ross. All these and many others, and some whose names have no memorial, form a great host of heroes, an army of soldiers â€� fit companions of those of whom the poets have sung... There is the great Newton at the head of this list comparing himself to a child playing on the seashore gathering pebbles, whilst he could see with prophetic vision the immense ocean of truth yet unexplored before him...”
― Frederick William Sanderson