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Quotation from Experiments in Plant Hybridisation (in Bateson's Mendel's Principles of Heredity) by Gregor Mendel; William Bateson
“Each conception of life in which heredity bears a part--and which of them is exempt?--must change before the coming rush of facts.”
Experiments in Plant Hybridisation (in Bateson's Mendel's Principles of Heredity), Bateson, A Defence of Mendel's Principles of Heredity, Conclusion, trans. Bateson's own English
Bateson's forecast of the transformation Mendel's work would bring to biology.
Citation: "Each conception of life in which heredity bears a part--and which of them is exempt?--must change before the coming rush of facts." — Gregor Mendel; William Bateson, Experiments in Plant Hybridisation (in Bateson's Mendel's Principles of Heredity), Bateson, A Defence of Mendel's Principles of Heredity, Conclusion, trans. Bateson's own English. (id mendel-experiments-in-plant-hybridisation-q7)
Portrait: Gregor Mendel with cross, Unknown photographer, Public domain.
