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To put it in the terms chosen lately by Mr. Arthur Harris in a friendly criticism of my views: "Natural selection may explain the survival of the fittest, but it cannot explain the arrival of the fittest."

Hugo De Vries

The noble aim of university teaching is the lifting of mankind to a higher appreciation of the ideas of life and truth. It has to cultivate the most intimate connection between theory and practice, between abstract science and actual life.

Hugo De Vries

[A plant] does not change itself gradually, but remains unaffected during all succeeding generations. It only throws off new forms, which are sharply contrasted with the parent, and which are from the very beginning as perfect and as constant, as narrowly defined, and as pure of type as might be expected of any species.

Hugo De Vries

Hugo De Vries

Hugo De Vries

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Born: February 16, 1848

Died: May 21, 1935 (aged 87)

Bio: Hugo Marie de Vries was a Dutch botanist and one of the first geneticists.

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