Biology Quotes · Page 81

If the task of scientific methodology is to piece together an account of what scientists actually do, then the testimony of biologists…

— Peter Medawar

I was good in biology, but I did very badly in chemistry, and my parents were horrified by that.

— Andrew Sean Greer

We have a creative drive, but not all creative experiments are successful. In nature, there are many lineages of organisms that you…

— Greg Graffin

[Computer science] is not really about computers and it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about…

— Hal Abelson

...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral…

— Aldo Leopold

We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The school systems at my childhood had enough money or enough parent involvement that they felt like learning music and songs, and…

— Carrie Brownstein

Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Evolution has developed man to such a high degree that he builds zoos to keep his ancestors in cages.

— Nate

It's always interesting when you throw two people in a room and have them try to biologically, immediately connect, but that's biology's…

— Noah Centineo

Early AI was mainly based on logic. You're trying to make computers that reason like people. The second route is from biology:…

— Geoffrey Hinton

It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could…

— Maurice Wilkins

“we were all victims of an obsolete educational system built on the belief that the best way to prepare us for the…

— Lucy Mihajlich

“Progression is the lesson, elevation is the direction, and evolution is the solution proven through contribution.”

— Capies Pitts

“In the future I see open fields for more important researches. Psychology will be securely based on the foundation already laid by…

— Charles Darwin

“Pity thwarts the whole law of evolution, which is the law of natural selection. It preserves whatever is ripe for destruction;”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Three ideas stand out above all others in the influence they have exerted and are destined to exert upon the development of…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

Somewhere in the world there is a person who could ask you the precise question you need to hear in order to…

— Rob Brezsny

“The fundamental core of contemporary Darwinism, the theory of DNA-based reproduction and evolution, is now beyond dispute among scientists. It demonstrates its…

— Daniel C. Dennett

We're finding a third way for biologists to change the world. It's very hard to change the world when the only directions…

— Arvind Gupta

“An accurate view of evolution, in all its multifaceted and anarchic glory... We are all evolved creatures who share a common way…

— Greg Graffin

“Creativity sparks originality, which then manifests itself into what we call evolution. To depreciate imagination is to depreciate life.”

— Al Stone

Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

— Michael Polanyi

“Knew what it was to loose him. That specific being. that unique and miraculous collision of biology and history, spirit and matter.”

— Janet Fitch

“...it would be a very naive sort of dogmatism to assume that there exists an absolute reality of things which is the…

— Ernst Cassirer