Edmund Beecher Wilson

science step higway discovery horizon

"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 (1856-1839)

investigation push limit knowledge

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

— Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856-1839)

nucleus cytoplasmic field development inheritance cell

"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 (1856-1839)

cell-division qualitative chromatin exact quality

"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 (1856-1839)