2 Quotes by John N. Thompson

Every time you think about settling on a more mundane question to answer, or reducing your sample size, or skipping an experiment that would strengthen your interpretation, remember that reviewers and editors of the major journals are looking for the small minority of papers that stand out from the rest.

Because genes and genomes are expressed in different ways in different environments (genotype-by-environment interactions) and species interact in different ways in different environments (genotype-by-genotype-by environment interactions), selection to local physical andbiotic environments may often be linked.