Biology Quotes · Page 14

“Exchange is to technology as sex is to evolution. It stimulates novelty”

— Matt Ridley (Author

“The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism..”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Living organisms are distinguished by their specified complexity

— Leslie Orgel

An endangered planet may depend on the evolution of consciousness.

— Deepak Chopra

“A man in a suit and tie is a testament to the power of evolution.”

— Nora Barry

Sexuality is the great field of battle between biology and society.

— Nancy Friday

A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism.

— Machado de Assis

A cell is regarded as the true biological atom.

— George Henry Lewes

“strange evolution, that people have come to believe that we are its greatest achievement when really we're just a collection of cells…

— Dave Matthews Band

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

— Jeremy Rifkin

I think your personal evolution runs hand in hand with your professional evolution. Performance and the person you are kind of grow…

— Heath Ledger

“It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.”

— Charles Darwin

Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.

— Erwin Chargaff

I have found the study of organisms to be a truly exciting experience, always interesting and sometimes humbling.

— Edward T. Hall

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

— John Szarkowski

The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning…

— Eric Kandel

We are learning that the earth functions like an invisible organism. We are the various cells of one living being. Those who…

— Jeremy Rifkin

“Biological determinism is a blight on science. It implies that the way things are is the way they must be. [...] This…

— John Horgan

The advent of AIDS circa 1980 has really forced medicine and biology to take enormous steps just for sheer survival. The same…

— Paul Di Filippo

If we start with chimpanzees, they differ from us with the composition of the DNA by only just over one percent. So,…

— Jane Goodall

I really wanted to be a doctor, until my freshman year of college when I realized that while I was good at…

— Marissa Mayer

I need scarcely say that the beginning and maintenance of life on earth is absolutely and infinitely beyond the range of all…

— Lord Kelvin

“Unlike the traditionally accepted theories of evolution and natural selection, Black’s view stressed that mutations are not accidents; instead, they are the…

— E.B. Hudspeth

Philosophers of biology generally recognize that evolutionary fitness (roughly, an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment) is multiply realizable.

— Elliott Sober

“Stopping in the 1970s, "Hybridity" as the fifth and final chapter is less of an end point than a certain realization of…

— Hannah Landecker

“Prediction in a complex world is a chancy business. Every decision that a survival machine takes is a gamble, and it is…

— Richard Dawkins

“Kinds are like the dog sort (including dingoes, wolves, coyotes, domestic dogs, etc.), cat sort (including lions, tigers, cougars, bobcats, domestic cats,…

— Ken Ham

It is easy to make out three areas where scientists will be concentrating their efforts in the coming decades. One is in…

— Dennis Flanagan

“Our brains contain one hundred billion nerve cells (neurons). Each neuron makes links with ten thousand other neurons to form an incredible…

— Nessa Carey

“Any event or group of events may be viewed from different degrees of abstraction. A man jumps from a bridge. The psychologists…

— Fulton J. Sheen

In fact, books are still being published by the lunatic fringe with the same explanation. In case this book should be read…

— D. V. Ager

“When I was in school I studied biology. I learned that in making their experiments scientists will take some group - bacteria,…

— Cormac McCarthy

“You're not mutation, you are evolution.”

— DeCandido Keith R. A

God has blessed me many times. I had some great genetics.

— Scott Hall

Time is change, transformation, evolution.

— I. L. Peretz

Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works

— Kevin Kelly

Nothing will stifle your human evolution more than fame and fortune.

— Patti Smith

We know that these clashes with Asia and Jewry are necessary for evolution.

— Heinrich Himmler

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

— Elizabeth Moon

“I should be dead but got smart and rebuilt my biology!”

— Steven Magee