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Winthrop J.V. Leuven Osterhout
(7 Aug 1871 - 9 Apr 1964)
American botanist whose research in the 1930s was on the active transport mechanism of a carrier molecule for moving solutes across a cell membrane.
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Science Quotes by Winthrop J.V. Leuven Osterhout (1 quote)
You geneticists may know something about the hereditary mechanisms that distinguish a red-eyed from a white-eyed fruit fly but you haven’t the slightest inkling about the hereditary mechanism that distinguishes fruit flies from elephants.
— Winthrop J.V. Leuven Osterhout
1925, in Corn, Its Origin, Evolution and Improvement by P. C. Mangelsdorf (1974).
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
