To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life.

- Gregor Mendel

I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.

- Gregor Mendel

When two plants, constantly different in one or several traits, are crossed, the traits they have in common are transmitted unchanged to the hybrids …

- Gregor Mendel

The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case befor…

- Gregor Mendel

My experiments with single traits all lead to the same result: that from the seeds of hybrids, plants are obtained half of which in turn carry the hy…

- Gregor Mendel

In this generation, along with the dominating traits, the recessive ones also reappear, their individuality fully revealed, and they do so in the dec…

- Gregor Mendel

If A denotes one of the two constant traits, for example, the dominating one, a the recessive, and the Aa the hybrid form in which both are united, t…

- Gregor Mendel

Those traits that pass into hybrid association entirely or almost entirely unchanged, thus themselves representing the traits of the hybrid, are term…

- Gregor Mendel

That no generally applicable law of the formulation and development of hybrids has yet been successfully formulated can hardly astonish anyone who is…

- Gregor Mendel