Charles Thom Born : November 11, 1872 Died : May 24, 1956 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Charles Thom Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in the hybrid-rather than be represented by plus or minus signs, and put several seasons into throwing doubt upon the concept of immutable hypothetical units of inheritance concocted to account for selected results. Charles Thom life science ideas