Biology Quotes · Page 23

Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment.

— Richard Dawkins

What I want to do is demonstrate that biology can learn how to make a vast array of molecules that people thought…

— Frances Arnold

Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.

— Marcus Aurelius

Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.

— Camille Paglia

“When most of us hear the word cells, we think biology. I think penitentiary. (It's an occupational hazard.)”

— Reginald Dipwipple

“The evolution of the universe is both mirrored by and incumbent upon your own.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

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

— Wendy Mogel

“It was the raging stubbornness of living organisms that simply would not give in.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch

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

— Elliott Sober

Evolution is a process of creating patterns of increasing order…I believe that it's the evolution of patterns that constitutes the ultimate story…

— Ray Kurzweil

I'm a huge believer in evolution (not in the sense that "it happened" - anybody who doesn't believe that is either uninformed…

— Linus Torvalds

“we were all victims of an obsolete educational system built on the belief that the best way to prepare us for the…

— Lucy Mihajlich

Evolution is among the most well-established theories in the scientific community. To doubt it sounds to biologists as absurd as denying relativity…

— Leonard Mlodinow

I like to think of synthetic biology as liquid alchemy, only instead of transmuting precious metals, you're synthesizing new biological functionality inside…

— Neri Oxman

It's high time to rescue "intelligent design" from the politics of religion. There are too many riddles not yet answered by either…

— Deepak Chopra

It is a mystic maxim that the lower in the scale of evolution a being is placed, the more certainly it responds…

— Max Heindel

“Evolution endowed us with intuition only for those aspects of physics that had survival value for our distant ancestors, such as the…

— Max Tegmark

Evolution is an unproven theory. If what its fundamentalist supporters believe is true, fishes decided to grow lungs and legs and walk…

— Peter Hitchens

“It is conceivable that an interplay of genes and epigenes coordinates human embryogenesis. Let us return, yet again, to Morgan's problem: the…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life. This project is ambitious but technically…

— David Pearce

“We biologists often use the phrase “Mother Nature” to refer to the entire system of Nature that we see around us, but…

— Abhijit Naskar

“I recently asked more than seventy eminent researchers if they would have done I their work differently if they had thought Darwin's…

— Philip S. Skell

Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

People are only animals, but special animals. Every animal has fought and killed to survive, even before the dinosaurs. We're the only…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“A kind of bias I share says that if a human thinks symmetry is important it may or may not be, but…

— Robert Trivers

“Progression is the lesson, elevation is the direction, and evolution is the solution proven through contribution.”

— Capies Pitts

“Pleasure is a reward, given to the human system by evolution in return for services rendered to the preservation and increase of…

— Clive Barker

We're now at this place where we can make the evolution of academic content match the evolution of the world.

— Sebastian Thrun

Evolution... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth.

— Julian Huxley

The supersession of dualism in biology begins to occur in this science at the moment when the ‘time’ factor is taken into…

— Jean Gebser

Our aim must be to make our successive mistakes as quickly as possible. To speed up evolution.

— Karl Popper

Genetics is all about showcasing human beauty along with high-quality performance.

— Bela Karolyi

Evolution isn't true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here?

— Stephen Baldwin

The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism.

— Aldo Leopold

Both individual fulfillment and the ecological balance of life on this planet are best served by dying when our inherent biology decrees…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

— Iain McGilchrist

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more…

— David Brin

[Evolution Theory] is the motivating factor for guys like Hitler and Stalin and George Bush, by the way, who is a Satan…

— Kent Hovind

Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate…

— Stephen Jay Gould

There is a deep interconnectedness of all life on earth, from the tiniest organisms, to the largest ecosystems, and absolutely between each…

— Anonymous