No practical biologist interested in sexual reproduction would be led to work out the detailed consequences experienced by organisms having three or … - Ronald Fisher

… the best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and in the moral sense.

He is an ambitious politician of a type likely to become prevalent in a system avowedly guided by a rigid ideology, who hopes to use the ideological dogmas to which he finds his colleagues committed as levers for his own advancement in the party and in the state.

Apart from sex linkage, we know almost nothing at present of linkage in man. Yet it is certain that every defect determined by a single factor must be located in one or other of twenty-three [sic] linkage groups. Each defect must therefore be linked in inheritance with numerous other observable traits, and with some of them is probably linked closely. The search for such linkage will certainly be lengthy, and at first, disappointing.