Biology Quotes · Page 26

“Organisms are selected to deploy violence only in circumstances where the expected benefits outweigh the expected costs.”

— Steven Pinker

People need to understand the basics of evolution if they are going to reject it—otherwise, they are not contributing anything productive to…

— Greg Graffin

For students, the evolution-creation discussion can be a useful exercise, for it can help develop their critical thinking skills.

— Ken Ham

Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness.

— Daniel Levitin

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over…

— Kevin Kelly

“Evolution is antifragile! While individuals in the population are fragile, the population as a whole is antifragile.”

— Rich Jolly

Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking…

— Jeff Koons

Morphological information has provided the greatest single source of data in the formulation and development of the theory of evolution and that…

— Everett C. Olson

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

— John Maynard Smith

The technology of synthetic biology is currently accelerating at four times the rate of Moore's Law. It's been doing that since 2005,…

— Stewart Brand

Science is absolutely incomplete unless and until the scientists are Realised Souls. Medicine is incomplete, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, everything is incomplete unless…

— Nirmala Srivastava

If we turn to palaeontology to tell us about our biological evolution it is to prehistory that we look for evidence of…

— John G. D. Clark

“When everything about a people is for the time growing weak and ineffective, it begins to talk about efficiency. So it is…

— G.K. Chesterton

The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like. Apart from differences in jargon, the pages of a molecular biology journal might…

— Richard Dawkins

So what we can answer [as geneticists] is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically…

— Spencer Wells

It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling…

— Thomas Huxley

My relationship to the desecration of the earth was very theoretical and intellectual until I got sick. I could never watch anything…

— Eve Ensler

Astrobiology is the science of life in the universe. It's an attempt to scientifically deal with the question of whether or not…

— David Grinspoon

“I described living cells as being crammed full of protein molecules. Acting individually or in small assemblies, they perform reiterated molecular processes…

— Dennis Bray

What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to…

— Anonymous

“So here we find that the animals, and the plants, the vegetation, became living souls, and were created spiritually before they were…

— Joseph Fielding Smith

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

— Richard Dawkins

“There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for…

— J. Anderson Thomson Jr

Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.

— Robert Lanza

Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.

— Richard Dawkins

There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.

— Alvin Toffler

The brain rewards us for interacting with beautiful things. In this way, evolution wants to encourage us to do what is good…

— Frank Wilczek

Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad.

— Hideo Kojima

The causal structure determines the rate and method of evolution, your awareness of the universe.

— Frederick Lenz

I was good in biology, but I did very badly in chemistry, and my parents were horrified by that.

— Andrew Sean Greer

I wanted to find out why I wasn't getting off on what I was doing and try and make some sense out…

— Van Morrison

I think quite spiritually of myself. I feel like I'm here to support the human evolution.

— Alanis Morissette

Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.

— C. S. Lewis

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environment.

— Keith Henson

What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls?

— Terry Tempest Williams

Geology differs from physics, chemistry, and biology in that the possibilities for experiment are limited.

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

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

— Rebecca Skloot

I see psychoanalysis, art and biology ultimately coming together, just like cognitive psychology and neuroscience have merged.

— Eric Kandel