Biology Quotes

There are no monotone "values" in biology.

Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.

Biology has tended to be an observational science and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past but I hate to predict the future on that.

The school was very supportive. The only class that I had to attend every day was biology when we were doing dissections. I would take an 8 a.m. bio class, dissect my animal, and then run to work.

My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side.

You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose - and that means evolution.

The typical imperative from biology is not "Thou shalt... ," but "If ... then ... else.

Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.

Biology will tell you a lot of things, but there are many that it can not explain and you need to look at physics instead.

Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist.

I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of mine in the field of anthropology.

Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.

Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable circumstances and extremes.

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.

We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.

My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.

The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary biology as well.

This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the way the brain works but in broader contexts in biology and even physics.

National Socialism is applied biology.

Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution.

I really wanted to be a doctor, until my freshman year of college when I realized that while I was good at chemistry and biology, I really wasn't feeling challenged by it.

Janet Yellen at the FED is equivalent to having a biology schoolteacher who has never seen blood perform brain surgery.

I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.

You can't teach biology with a bottle containing dead animals and organisms.

On the day that your mentality Decides to catch up with your biology, Come 'round

Teens are by nature, experimental learners. There is no real understanding of biology without the lab.

Biology always beats will power.

We argue with our biology, and the result of that argument is civilization.

The laws of biology are written in the language of diversity.

I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.

I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning, just like the digital one was when I was his age.

A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys.

Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song?

The life sciences contain spiritual values which can never be explained by the materialistic attitude of present day science

Biology is destiny only for girls.

I personally cannot discern a shred of evidence for ‘[intelligent] design.’ If 97% of all creatures have gone extinct, some plan isn't working very well!

The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest) to attain her needs by the easiest means.

Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase.

Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water.

Love, in its purest form, is biology.

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be a physician. So, I'm a physician scientist.

With my biology degree, I got this job at an environmental lab. We tested sewage runoff, we tested chemical warfare waste runoff. It's a job I'll never do again and I would never wish upon anybody.

Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness

I like to surf. I like to play guitar. I want to do college classes online. I wanted to do marine biology for a long time, but I don't know.

But regular biology, as an "ology," has to be "scientific," and this means in practice that it has to be made dull.... Everything has to be expressed in utterly impersonal terms.

I liked all of my science classes from biology to chemistry. I thought dissecting was one of the most interesting parts of it.

What was that?" Galladon demanded. "I think I just destroyed the biology section" Raoden replied with wonder.

The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.