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Quotation from Experiments in Plant Hybridisation (in Bateson's Mendel's Principles of Heredity) by Gregor Mendel; William Bateson
“The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used”
Experiments in Plant Hybridisation (in Bateson's Mendel's Principles of Heredity), Mendel, Experiments in Plant Hybridisation, Selection of the Experimental Plants, trans. Royal Horticultural Society translation, rev. William Bateson
The principle behind Mendel's choice of the garden pea.
Citation: "The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used" — Gregor Mendel; William Bateson, Experiments in Plant Hybridisation (in Bateson's Mendel's Principles of Heredity), Mendel, Experiments in Plant Hybridisation, Selection of the Experimental Plants, trans. Royal Horticultural Society translation, rev. William Bateson. (id mendel-experiments-in-plant-hybridisation-q3)
Portrait: Gregor Mendel with cross, Unknown photographer, Public domain.
