Biology Quotes · Page 25

“Memory is life. It is always carried by groups of living people, and therefore it is in permanent evolution.”

— Eric J. Hobsbawm

I think that in the 21st century, medical biology will advance at a more rapid pace than before.

— Shinya Yamanaka

In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about…

— Anonymous

“How do you look upon other men as astonishing organisms? Only by so regarding yourself.”

— James Broughton

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

— Kevin Kelly

One of the central mysteries of biology is why the genome is largely identical from cell to cell, even though cells do…

— Erez Lieberman Aiden

All you speak of is evolution It's mind blowinq without direction and situation objection corruption.

— Black Uhuru

Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“When you're young, all evolution lies before you, every road is open to you, and at the same time you can enjoy…

— Italo Calvino

The occurrence of successive forms of life upon our globe is an historical fact, which cannot be disputed; and the relation of…

— Anonymous

To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a…

— Anonymous

“This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal…

— Asa Gray

Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection…

— Peter Singer

Obviously it depends on how you define a word like "evolution," because of course we have been evolving - both biologically and…

— Annalee Newitz

There are two theories of evolution. There is the genuine scientific theory; and there is the talk-radio pretend version, designed not to…

— Edward Humes

“The good news was that "biology" turned out to be the magic password for working at the Museum of Natural History, just…

— Sloane Crosley

“He reaches under the desk and takes out a book. It is thick, with a worn cover and frayed edges. On it…

— Veronica Roth

...I think there's only one [thing] that anybody teaches, and this is character. And I think that whether you are teaching history,…

— Rich Mullins

Consciousness, when its unburdened by the body, is something thats ecstatic; we use the mind to watch the mind, and thats the…

— Jason Silva

I think nobody would claim that random genetic drift is capable of producing adaptation, that is to say the illusion of design.…

— Richard Dawkins

Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must arise much…

— Marjory Stephenson

“In the discoveries of science the harmony of the spheres is also now the harmony of life. And as the eerie illumination…

— Michael Denton

“Men write more books. Men give more lectures. Men ask more questions after lectures. Men post more e-mail to Internet discussion groups.…

— Geoffrey Miller

I see the mycelium as the Earth's natural Internet, a consciousness with which we might be able to communicate. Through cross-species interfacing,…

— Paul Stamets

The future, higher evolution will belong to those who live in joy, who share joy, and who spread joy.

— Torkom Saraydarian

“Evolution and genetics often seem to be an excuse for scientists and reporters to shut off their B.S. filters!”

— Anonymous

“What would you do if I told you that corporations and corporate controlled governments invest heavily in corrupted science?”

— Steven Magee

If you are lying in a tent in the Congo jungle, you don't want to be reading about rainforest biology. You want…

— David Quammen

Thermodynamics, correctly interpreted, does not just allow Darwinian evolution; it favors it.

— Ludwig Boltzmann

Creativity may have killed a few cats, but evolution certainly eliminated many more incurious ones.

— Guy Claxton

“curse the genetics that turn me into a lobster after one hour in the sun while everyone else gets to look like…

— A.M. Robinson

“an organism's selective environment is constantly crumbling beneath its evolutionary feet”

— Russell Powell Allen Buchanan

Teleology is a lady without whom no biologist can live. Yet he is ashamed to show himself with her in public.

— Ernst Wilhelm von Brucke

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

— Dee Hock

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

— Noam Chomsky

Man's great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.

— Linus Pauling

“Freaks become norms, and norms become extinct. Monster by monster, evolution advanced”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

— Richard Dawkins

My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals.

— Robert Winston

I think that's what makes life interesting - the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinating to me, the whole process.

— Alexis Bledel