Indeed, if "biology is chemistry with history," as…

“It came, over and over, down to this: What made someone a mother? Was it biology alone, or was it love?”

— Celeste Ng

I like writing about biology, not doing it.

— Kary Mullis

I do admire great essayists. I'm a particular fan of good nature writing. People like Robert Finch. I read great quantities of writing by…

— Roger Zelazny

“I do not write every day. I write to the questions and issues before me. I write to deadlines. I write out of my…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“As the poet Alexander Pope said: Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.”

— Stephen Hawking

“Look at those vines,' he said. 'Nature is wearing her prettiest clothes.' The effect of this unexpectedly poetic observation was slight spoiled when Massot…

— Peter Mayle

“The earth is not our home. We came from nothing, and to that condition our nostalgia should turn. Why would anyone care about this…

— Thomas Ligotti

For awhile the only thing people were talking to me about my music, that's all they ever said: 'You must be a nature lover.…

— Phil Elverum

It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between happens and is, on the one hand,…

— Wolfgang Kohler

At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature. Just to be in…

— Michael Leunig

Nature is very rarely right, to such an extent even, that it might almost be said that nature is usually wrong...

— James Whistler

“We are at the dawn of a new era, the era of 'molecular biology' as I like to call it, and there is an…

— William Astbury

The real frontier is making these hybrid systems where you expand the capabilities of biology with chemistry.

— Frances Arnold

As a chemist, I wanted to ask myself the question frustrated by biology: What is the minimal unit of matter that can undergo Darwinian…

— Leroy Cronin

I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized…

— Lois Lowry