Biology Quotes · Page 27

“The genetic differences between human races turn out to be based largely in allele frequencies,”

— Nicholas Wade

Biology sets the context, and that is critical, but obesity still boils down to whether a person eats too much or exercises…

— Robin Marantz Henig

“I'm doing now with cornets exactly what I used to do with trilobites: measuring, analyzing and cataloging the myriad gradations of their…

— Niles Eldredge

The organism cannot be regarded as simply the passive object of autonomous internal and external forces; it is also the subject of…

— Richard Levins

We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.

— African Spir

“Evolution works only on how memory influences fitness, not for how accurately memory reflects the past per se.”

— Thomas Suddendorf

I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is…

— Steve Jobs

Radiation is one of the important factors in evolution. It causes mutation, and some level of mutation is actually good for evolution.

— David Grinspoon

I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands.…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organisms have proved directly relevant to human biology and human disease. An…

— H. Robert Horvitz

“What a mistake that had been, to create a construct [AI] that could suffer. He knew that now. Life, pain, death, they…

— David Marusek

Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of…

— Tom DeLay

All scientists agree that evolution has occurred-that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new…

— Lynn Margulis

That series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution --…

— Jacob Bronowski

“Insects are major players in nature's recycling effort, and in nature a corpse is simply organic matter to be recycled. Left to…

— M. Lee Goff

I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive. An…

— Jerry Garcia

To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our Earth is not the center of the…

— Jared Diamond

A living organism must be studied from two distinct aspects. One of these is the causal-analytic aspect which is so fruitfully applicable…

— Gavin de Beer

“Morgan had discovered an important modification to Mendel's laws. Genes did not travel separately; instead, they moved in packs. Packets of information…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

We know the laws of trial and error, of large numbers and probabilities. We know that these laws are part of the…

— Albert Claude

“The male frog, in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male…

— Margaret Atwood

As an adult I discovered that I was a pretty good autodidact, and can teach myself all kind of things. And developed…

— Dean Koontz

“Humanity shares a common ancestry with all living things on Earth. We often share especially close intimacies with the microbial world. In…

— Brenda Wilmoth Lerner

The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

If few worlds have microbial life, it dramatically reduces the chances that more complex organisms exist.

— Debra Fischer

“EVOLUTION A great parent/mentor/teacher will push you beyond their attained status”

— Kamil Ali

Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and bizarre.

— Elizabeth Blackburn

The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.

— Jerry A. Coyne

“evolution  only happens by learning new skills, developing these skills and qualities, and then embodying them.”

— Martin Faulks

Change is at the very core of evolution and without it, all creatures would look alike and behave the same way.

— Martin Dansky

I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people.

— Scott Westerfeld

No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels.

— Gregory Bateson

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.

— Colson Whitehead

“But biology does not readjust to accommodate the false theories of scientists …’ – James le Fanu, British physician”

— Tim Noakes

What people don't realize is the human body and the brain are so well designed to do - by millions of years…

— Paul Allen

If evolution is true, you could not know that it’s true because your brain is nothing but chemicals. Think about that.

— Kent Hovind

Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“We are all born with a genetic inheritance—but your genes are activated by the environment. They can be switched on, or off,…

— Johann Hari

The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

To genetic evolution, the human lineage has added the parallel track of cultural evolution.

— E. O. Wilson