That the fundamental aspects of heredity should have turned out to be so extraordinarily simple supports us in the hope that nature may, after all, b…

- Thomas Hunt Morgan

Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.

- Thomas Hunt Morgan

Except for the rare cases of plastid inheritance, the inheritance of all known cooacters can be sufficiently accounted for by the presence of genes i…

- Thomas Hunt Morgan

Within the period of human history we do not know of a single instance of the transformation of one species into another one. It may be claimed that …

- Thomas Hunt Morgan

Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as well as in ch…

- Thomas Hunt Morgan

Some things are better done than described.

- Thomas Hunt Morgan

The media has enormous power. The media is undergoing huge changes now. It seemed like it's time to step back and look at how the media shapes our li…

- Thomas Hunt Morgan