Edwin Grant Conklin Quotes

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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.

Edwin Grant Conklin
The teachings of biology and of human history indicate that further social progress must lie in the direction of the rational cooperation of all mankind.

Edwin Grant Conklin
The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the Unabridged Dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing factory.

Edwin Grant Conklin
The faith, ideals, and ethics of science constitute a form of natural religion.

Edwin Grant Conklin
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.

Edwin Grant Conklin
Reason and consciousness have disclosed to man a vast and mysterious universe, in which there are stupendous forces and processes which he but dimly apprehends and the meaning and purpose of which he cannot understand.

Edwin Grant Conklin
What molecules and atoms and electrons are to the physicist and chemist, chromosomes and genes are to the biologist.

Edwin Grant Conklin
Education is habit-forming rather than information; illumination rather than indoctrination, inspiration rather than compulsion.

Edwin Grant Conklin
Science cannot solve the great mysteries of our existence, — why we are, whither we are bound, and what it all means. Faith alone assures us that there is definite purpose in all experience. This knowledge makes life worth living and service a privilege.

Edwin Grant Conklin
Heredity is today 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.

Edwin Grant Conklin