Biology Quotes

In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes.

Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species.

There is more to biology than rats, Drosophila, Caenorhabditis, and E. coli.

The blooming of a flower is, in my mind, not a miracle. It's something that we can understand on the basis of molecular biology these days.

The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every other branch of the life sciences.

It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in reproduction.

But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.

At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.

We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions.

A strong feeling of adventure is animating those who are working on bacterial viruses, a feeling that they have a small part in the great drive towards a fundamental problem in biology.

Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.

If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how to work a pipette.

I can see no practical application of molecular biology to human affairs... DNA is a tangled mass of linear molecules in which the informational content is quite inaccessible.

There is no true understanding of Biology without Chemistry. And there's no true understanding of Chemistry without Physics.

Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality.

The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.

Your biography becomes your biology.

And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry.

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.

Computer science … jobs should be way more interesting than even going to Wall Street or being a lawyer--or, I can argue, than anything but perhaps biology, and there it's just a tie.

Looking to biology to explain the low prevalence of eating disorders among men is like looking to genetics to explain why nonsmokers do not get lung cancer as often as smokers.

A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct.

Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences.

There's biology in everything, even when you're feeling spiritual.

If it squirms, it's biology; if it stinks, it's chemistry; if it doesn't work, it's physics; and if you can't understand it, it's mathematics.

Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.

Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

We must [it has been arued] go beyond reductionism to a holistic recognition that biology and culture interpenetrate in an inextricable manner.

DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.

The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.

Most likely, logic is capable of justifying mathematics to no greater extent than biology is capable of justifying life.

Paradoxically, it has turned out that game theory is more readily applied to biology than to the field of economic behavior for which it was originally designed

Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?

One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

I think it's reasonable to suppose that one could oscillate between being biologically 20 and biologically 25 indefinitely.

While Occam's razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology. It is thus very rash to use simplicity and elegance as a guide in biological research.

It's bad biology to rob nonhuman animals of their emotional lives.

I'm enjoying my life, post-menopause, so much. It's just so great to grow into yourself, and not be bothered with all that tyranny of biology.

Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept.

There is an authentic biology of hope. Belief and expectation - the key elements of hope - can block pain by releasing the brain's endorphins and enkephalins, mimicking the effects of morphine.

Evolution makes biology make sense. And if you don't teach your students the evolutionary core of biology, you're making it harder for them.