Biology Quotes · Page 37

I just kind of figured that the marine biology would be a career, and the art would be something I did for…

— Stephen Hillenburg

“The mysteries of psychology pale in comparison, just as evolution strikes me as infinitely more spiritually profound than Genesis.”

— Maggie Nelson

That awkward moment when you know the full lyrics of over 100 songs, but cant remember 25 biology definitions

— Anonymous

“Richard Dawkins would be the first to agree: “Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been…

— J. Warner Wallace

The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the…

— Antonio Damasio

“Humanity thrown together in the equivalent of a Petri dish under a microscope bred malignant organisms as often as benign.”

— B.V. Lawson

“Not only is the organism a part of the physical universe but the world of organisms itself is one family.”

— Ernest Jones

If you really want to study evolution, you've got go outside sometime, because you'll see symbiosis everywhere!

— Lynn Margulis

“The theory of evolution also had a very great effect in alienating science from religion and creating a world in which one…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“if you come up with something the world values, you almost can’t help but be rewarded. Conversely, reality tends to penalize those…

— Ray Dalio

Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences…

— Mary Midgley

I don't believe in any particular definition of the afterlife, but I do believe we're spiritual creatures and more than our biology…

— Alan Ball

As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the…

— Jacques Lacan

I've probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it's so simple,…

— Biz Stone

The logical outcome of evolution is that it makes monsters. We turn into monsters because evolution takes away everything that makes us…

— Frank Peretti

That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there…

— Richard Owen

“There is nothing opposed in Biometry and Mendelism . Your husband and I worked that out at Peppards [on the Chilterns] and…

— Karl Pearson

“As a society, we assume that humans naturally run from emotions like suffering, helplessness, and hopelessness, but the truth is these emotions…

— Simone Collins

“Some thirty miles east of the statue, with much less fanfare, another monument was nearing completion. At Cold Spring Harbor on Long…

— Adrienne Berard

“The human mind feels lonely even when there are so many organs and innumerable cells continuously functioning together in the body. Makes…

— Nabil Bhatiya

If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God…

— Richard Dawkins

“Many people think that the theory of the selfish gene says that “animals try to spread their genes.” That misstates the facts…

— Steven Pinker

A sense of being part of the great all-inclusive life prompts us to reflect on our own place and on how we…

— Daisaku Ikeda

“Emotional capacities are shaped by situations that occurred repeatedly in the course of evolution and that were important to fitness. Attacks by…

— Randolph M. Nesse

Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.

— Gerald Vizenor

Evolution is the key to avoiding the whole issue of God. When you challenge evolution, you're basically challenging someone on a spiritual…

— Frank Peretti

Evolutionary biology is crazy because sometimes it seems anybody can draw any conclusion they want.

— Naomi Wolf

Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.

— Germaine Greer

A human body is associated with six stages of transformation, birth, growth, change, evolution, death and destruction.

— Sathya Sai Baba

I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.

— Carl Sagan

We need to participate directly in the evolution of consciousness, which, at its core, is the evolution of love.

— Marc Gafni

The real evolution is to learn something new every day - it's very important for chefs to share what they have discovered.

— Alain Ducasse

God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.

— M. Scott Peck

Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.

— Michael Ruse

...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral…

— Aldo Leopold

Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

I have a strong feeling that the subject of evolution is beautiful without the excuse of creationists needing to be bashed.

— Richard Dawkins

It is an incontrovertible fact that if we want to make progress in basic areas of medicine and biology, we are going…

— John O'Keefe

Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.

— William Jennings Bryan

This innovation machine that's evolution, we can use it to do all sorts of interesting things.

— Frances Arnold