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Quotation from Experiments in Plant Hybridisation (in Bateson's Mendel's Principles of Heredity) by Gregor Mendel; William Bateson
“an unknown man, Gregor Johann Mendel, had, alone, and unheeded, broken off from the rest--in the moment that Darwin was at work--and cut a way through.”
Experiments in Plant Hybridisation (in Bateson's Mendel's Principles of Heredity), Bateson, Preface (1902), trans. Bateson's own English
Bateson's description of Mendel's achievement and its long neglect.
Citation: "an unknown man, Gregor Johann Mendel, had, alone, and unheeded, broken off from the rest--in the moment that Darwin was at work--and cut a way through." — Gregor Mendel; William Bateson, Experiments in Plant Hybridisation (in Bateson's Mendel's Principles of Heredity), Bateson, Preface (1902), trans. Bateson's own English. (id mendel-experiments-in-plant-hybridisation-q1)
Portrait: Gregor Mendel with cross, Unknown photographer, Public domain.
