Biology Quotes · Page 20

Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.

— David Eagleman

The weariness of the cell is the vigour of the organism.

— George Orwell

“Culture wars' are really undeclared 'gene wars”

— J. Philippe Rushton

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

— Milton Berle

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

— Steven Wright

I like writing about biology, not doing it.

— Kary Mullis

We are a fluke of nature, a quirk of evolution, a glorious contingency.

— Michael Shermer

Evolution gives us life and God stops us living it.

— Steve Fowler

The point of human evolution is adapting to circumstance. Not letting go of the old, but adapting it, is necessary.

— Sonali Bendre

“I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales.”

— Arthur Kornberg

“In contemporary parlance, sex is biological and gender is socially constructed.”

— Rebecca Solnit

The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change.

— Ronald Fisher

“o live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by…

— Shirley Jackson

Whether man is a product of evolution or is 'created' becomes the question, 'Who is man? Is he part of the world…

— Alija Izetbegovic

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

— Anonymous

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

— Ian Hacking

Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of…

— Claude Bernard

Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of…

— Richard Dawkins

It is clear, then, that whatever genetic heritage we have, it is not a straitjacket that traps us forever in the "beastly"…

— Jerry A. Coyne

I also suspect that many workers in this field [molecular biology] and related fields have been strongly motivated by the desire, rarely…

— Francis Crick

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore…

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Some people with Tourette's have flinging tics- sudden, seemingly motiveless urges or compulsions to throw objects… (I see somewhat similar flinging behaviors-…

— Oliver Sacks

Ribofunk indicates a focus on biology as the upcoming big science in the way that physics was for the last 50 or…

— Paul Di Filippo

Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted…

— E. O. Wilson

“All sorts of changes in cellular machinery have shown up that have nothing to do with the sequence of DNA but still…

— Thomas Hayden

Having studied biology really helped me a lot because I quickly understand how biological systems work, and how they fail, and the…

— Wangari Maathai

“[...] if truth be told, evolution hasn’t yielded many practical or commercial benefits. Yes, bacteria evolve drug resistance, and yes, we must…

— Jerry A. Coyne

We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd…

— James Lovelock

A garden is the place millions of people go to touch the earth, to smell flowers - to use some of that…

— Jim Nollman

Is evolution a theory, a system, or a hypothesis? It is much more it is a general postulate to which all theories,…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“...it would be a very naive sort of dogmatism to assume that there exists an absolute reality of things which is the…

— Ernst Cassirer

The sweetest thing I could say about my mother and father is that if I had the choice, I would have picked…

— Andrew Vachss

Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work.

— Thomas Lovejoy

I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology.

— John Pople

Fungi are the interface organisms between life and death.

— Paul Stamets

A male feminist is one of the most glorious end-products of evolution.

— Caitlin Moran

Evolution is as much a fact as the heat of the sun.

— Richard Dawkins

“There’s a difference between biology and real love, I’ve learned.”

— Ginger Scott

I think it was genetic: my legs were born like this.

— David Luiz

Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.

— Anjelica Huston