Biology Quotes · Page 109

We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.

— Tracy Letts

“What is truly revolutionary about molecular biology in the post-Watson-Crick era is that it has become digital...the machine code of the genes…

— Matt Ridley

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

Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal…

— Robert Wright

In my opinion, using creation and evolution as topics for critical-thinking exercises in primary and secondary schools is virtually guaranteed to confuse…

— Eugenie Scott

Altruism has always been one of biology's deep mysteries. Why should any animal, off on its own, specified and labeled by all…

— Lewis Thomas

“An organism is not an inert lump of matter, but a dynamic system: it survives by taking in new matter, extracting energy…

— Eric T. Olson

“It is not at all coincidental that Darwinian psychology has the same difficulty explaining the unity and integration of human reasoning as…

— Angus Menuge

Evolution lies at the heart of biology. It is seamlessly and continuously linked to health research to better understand such conditions as…

— Huntington Willard

The business of proving evolution has reached a stage when it is futile for biologists to work merely to discover more and…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

“When challenged by a zealous Popperian to say how evolution could ever be falsified, J. B. S. Haldane famously growled: 'Fossil rabbits…

— Richard Dawkins

“Evolution is the single greatest force in the universe; it is the only thing that is permanent and it drives everything.”

— Ray Dalio

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

— Samuel Butler

We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates…

— Fred Hoyle

“We inhabit a universe where atoms are made in the centers of stars; where each second a thousand suns are born; where…

— Carl Sagan

“The final and most important point about adaptation is really a crucial caveat: no organism is primarily adapted to be healthy, long-…

— Daniel E. Lieberman

I never imagined that I'd end up in animation, but marine biology and art collided, and here we are!

— Stephen Hillenburg

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

— Noam Chomsky

If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary…

— Niles Eldredge

I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments in the…

— Linus Pauling

Statistical physics or Newtonian physics gives way to quantum physics. Very unusual properties of matter emerge at that scale, and you can…

— Steve Jurvetson

Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.

— Kenneth R. Miller

There are a lot of very brilliant scholars who believe the reason we have incomplete science on evolution is that there is…

— Bill O'Reilly

Microbes such as bacteria and yeast use enzymes to make fuels from biomass. We use directed evolution to perfect those enzymes and…

— Frances Arnold

When we look at chimpanzees . . . we get this extremely fine-grained view of evolution, and as a result we understand…

— Bob Waterston