John Tyler Bonner quotes

The sudden appearance of mushrooms after a summer rain is one of the more impressive spectacles of the plant world. (John Tyler Bonner)
In the seventeenth century, it was held by some that inside a human sperm there was a minute human being - a homunculus - that was planted inside the womb. Development consisted of the miniature homunculus enlarging and passing through birth and on to maturity-just like inflating a balloon. View quote
John Tyler Bonner
My prime interests are in evolution and development. I use the cellular slime molds as a tool to seek an understanding of those twin disciplines. View quote
John Tyler Bonner
It is hard to explain the huge variety of diatoms - a microorganism that has 100,000 species - in terms of natural selection. View quote
John Tyler Bonner
That the role of size has been to some degree neglected in biology may lie in its simplicity. Size may be a property that affects all of life, but it seems pallid compared to the matter which makes up life. Yet size is an aspect of the living that plays a remarkable, overreaching role that affects life's matter in all its aspects. View quote
John Tyler Bonner