Biology Quotes · Page 34

“Evolution, life, physis, appear here as enveloping with regard to ‘consciousness’ of human knowledge.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

— Samuel Butler

A close inspection discovers an empirical impossibility to be inherent in the idea of evolution.

— Nils Heribert-Nilsson

“If it dies, it's biology; if it blows up, it's chemistry; if it doesn't work, it's physics!" As quoted from grafitti on…

— John Wilkes

“Dams also tend to be built in remote areas which are the last refuge for species that have been displaced by development…

— Patrick McCully

“Every genetic “illness” is a mismatch between an organism’s genome and its environment.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“A lizard fucks a crab and nine months later a turtle pops out. It's called evolution.”

— Anthony Marra

Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.

— Walter Lang

Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into the study…

— Ernst Mayr

After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the…

— John Polkinghorne

In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you…

— Richard Preston

I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible…

— Colin Blakemore

“There is more than one evolution. There are cosmological, geological, biological and sociological evolutions. The scientists of evolution say so. When I…

— Alija Izetbegović

If there were biologists among the extremophiles organisms that live in extreme conditions, they would surely classify themselves as normal and any…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and…

— Anonymous

So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just…

— E. O. Wilson

“Darwin’s theory of evolution, at least in its author’s eyes, dealt solely with the natural world. Yet it was as attractive to…

— Nicholas Wade

“In the 1970s Allan Wilson and Mary-Claire King at Berkeley correctly theorized that the evolution of genes is less important than the…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“The human condition is plagued with a labyrinth of shortcomings, frailties and limitations that hinder man from reaching his fullest potential. Therefore,…

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

Single cells analyze thousands of stimuli from the microenvironment they inhabit. The more awareness an organism has of its environment, the better…

— Bruce H. Lipton

If the task of scientific methodology is to piece together an account of what scientists actually do, then the testimony of biologists…

— Peter Medawar

A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is…

— David M. Raup

We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the…

— Charles Darwin

The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science - in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology.

— Naftali Bennett

The fact that the mind rules the body is, in spite of its neglect by biology and medicine, the most fundamental fact…

— Franz Alexander

“Contrary to popular belief, the gene-centered theory of evolution does not imply that the point of all human striving is to spread…

— Steven Pinker

The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.

— Walter Gilbert

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

— Brandon Sanderson

“Plants can be affected by stray voltage and they may show stunted growth, deformed growth, or go dormant. In extreme cases they…

— Steven Magee

My prime interests are in evolution and development. I use the cellular slime molds as a tool to seek an understanding of…

— John Tyler Bonner

[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science.

— Stephen Jay Gould

While other creatures of the evolution are just watching the universe, man alone has the power to change the fate of the…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“germ plasm provides a selective advantage because it enables more rapid evolution.”

— Anonymous

Protein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene…

— Francis Crick

I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

— Christopher Hitchens

Evolution has developed man to such a high degree that he builds zoos to keep his ancestors in cages.

— Nate

I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.

— Ben Stein

Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology.

— Steven Pinker

I was a biology major. But I also happened to be captain of the basketball team and first chair in band.

— Ser'Darius Blain