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“Increased knowledge of heredity means increased power of control over the living thing, and as we come to understand more and more the architecture of the plant or animal we realize what can and what cannot be done towards modification or improvement.”

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Reginald Punnett

Reginald Punnett was a significant figure in the field of genetics, known for his contributions to the foundational theories and experimental methods of genetics, particularly in the area of the laws of segregation and combination of genes. Punnett played a crucial role in the development of genetics, especially in the experimental validation and promotion of Mendelian genetic laws. more

“Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or practical point of view when they make us acquainted with the law of a series of uniformly recurring phenomena, or, it may be, only give a negative result showing an incompleteness in our knowledge of such a law, till then held to be perfect.”

Source: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

“It is hard to hide our genes completely. However devoted someone may be to the privacy of his genotype, others with enough curiosity and knowledge can draw conclusions from the phenotype he presents and from the traits of his relatives.”

May Hard Enough Science Knowledge Draws Curiosity Conclusion Privacy Genes Traits Devoted

Book:The Lives to Come

Source: The Lives to Come

“It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and classification of knowledge on the basis of explanatory principles that is the distinctive goal of the sciences.”

Science Desire Goal Principles Knowledge Evidence Organization Accounts Bases Explanation Systematic Distinctive Factual Classification

Author:Ernest Nagel

“It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.”

Knows Said Might Form Science Knowledge Essentials Cruelty Linked

Book:Maladie Mentale Et Psychologie

Source: Maladie Mentale Et Psychologie

“It will be contributing to bring forward the moment in which, seeing clearer into the nature of things, and having learnt to distinguish real knowledge from what has only the appearance of it, we shall be led to seek for exactness in every thing.”

Knows Real Moments Science Knowledge Seeing Appearance Contributing Exactness Real Knowledge

Author:Jean-Andre Deluc

“Knowledge comes by taking things apart, analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.”

Wisdom Together Science Knowledge Analysis

Author:John Alexander Morrison

“Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it is that human progress, founded on natural knowledge, advances with ever increasing speed.”

Knows Humans Science Interest Natural Knowledge Progress Accounts Speed Principal Dividends Human Progress

Book:Presidential Address by Grove Karl Gilbert: With Constitution and Standing Rules, Abstracts of Minutes and Lists of Officers and Members, 1895

Source: Presidential Address by Grove Karl Gilbert: With Constitution and Standing Rules, Abstracts of Minutes and Lists of Officers and Members, 1895

“Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected, which are statistically decorous and methodologically unimpeachable, but conclusions are often trivial and rarely useful in decision making. This results from an overly rigorous control of an insignificant variable and a widespread deficiency in the framing of pertinent questions. Investigators seem to have settled for what is measurable instead of measuring what they would really like to know.”

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