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The nucleus cannot operate without a cytoplasmic field in which its peculiar powers may come into play; but this field is created and moulded by itself. Both are necessary to development; the nucleus alone suffices for the inheritance of specific possibilities of development.

Edmund Beecher Wilson

Not a single visible phenomenon of cell-division gives even a remote suggestion of qualitative division. All the facts, on the contrary, indicate that the division of the chromatin is carried out with the most exact equality.

Edmund Beecher Wilson

Each forward step on the highway of discovery will bring to view a new horizon of regions still unknown. It will be an ill day for science when it can find no more fields to conquer.

Edmund Beecher Wilson

Investigations can do no more than push forward the limits of knowledge.

Edmund Beecher Wilson

Laying aside all merely speculative attempts to solve this problem, we must admit that our actual knowledge concerning it is still in a very backward state.

Edmund Beecher Wilson

Perhaps it is not amiss to remark that the biologist may not hope to solve the ultimate problems of life any more than the chemist and physicist may hope to penetrate the final mysteries of existence in the non-living world.

Edmund Beecher Wilson

Edmund Beecher Wilson

Edmund Beecher Wilson

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Born: October 19, 1856

Died: March 3, 1939 (aged 82)

Bio: Edmund Beecher Wilson was a pioneering American zoologist and geneticist. He wrote one of the most famous textbooks in the history of modern biology, The Cell.

Known for:

The cell in development and inheritance (1896)
Biology
The Development of Renilla

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