Edwin Conklin Quotes
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Freedom is one of the principal goals of human endeavor, but the best use man can make of his freedom is to place limitations upon it.
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Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides - that of the breeder, the experimenter, the statistician, the physiologist, the embryologist, the cytologist - but the mechanism of heredity can be studied best by the investigation of the germ cells and their development.
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Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis.
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The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the Unabridged Dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing factory.