--- title: "11 Biology Quotes By Noam Chomsky" description: "11 Biology quotes by Noam Chomsky. Plus more from Noam Chomsky and more Biology sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19c/noam-chomsky-42_biology_like-other-organisms-humans-have-a-certa_847483.jpg" --- > [Like other organisms, humans have a certain genetic endowment (apparently varying little in the species, not a surprise considering its recent separation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/like-other-organisms-humans-have-a-certain-genetic-endowment/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19c/noam-chomsky-42_biology_like-other-organisms-humans-have-a-certa_847483.jpg) > [Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/humans-have-certain-properties-and-characteristics-which-are/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/154/noam-chomsky-42_biology_humans-have-certain-properties-and-chara_2905254.jpg) > [Of course language arose in a Darwinian biological world, because that's all there is, but that world relates only superficially to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/of-course-language-arose-in-a-darwinian-biological-world-because-that/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/663/noam-chomsky-42_biology_of-course-language-arose-in-a-darwinian_2524629.jpg) > [A property of an organism enters into its life (and survival) in many different ways, some more salient than others. But there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/a-property-of-an-organism-enters-into-its-life-and-survival-in-many/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/97d/noam-chomsky-42_biology_a-property-of-an-organism-enters-into-it_876941.jpg) > [If you want to become a biologist, it doesn't help to go into the Harvard biology library and all the information is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/if-you-want-to-become-a-biologist-it-doesn-t-help-to-go-into-the/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c9/noam-chomsky-42_biologist_if-you-want-to-become-a-biologist-it-doe_367936.jpg) > [If humans are organisms like every other organism - which they are - then we should expect that if there are some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/if-humans-are-organisms-like-every-other-organism-which-they-are-then/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a87/noam-chomsky-42_biology_if-humans-are-organisms-like-every-other_1964420.jpg) > [What is the nature of the genetic endowment? How does acquisition proceed? Etc. Scientists do routinely ask similar questions about the visual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/what-is-the-nature-of-the-genetic-endowment-how-does-acquisition/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/497/noam-chomsky-42_acquisition_what-is-the-nature-of-the-genetic-endowm_1168857.jpg) > [It's roughly the case that if systems become too complex to study in sufficient depth, physics hands them over to chemistry, then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/it-s-roughly-the-case-that-if-systems-become-too-complex-to-study-in/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc9/noam-chomsky-42_biology_it-s-roughly-the-case-that-if-systems-be_692828.jpg) > [For us, we are all very different, our languages are very different, and our societies are very different. But if we could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/for-us-we-are-all-very-different-our-languages-are-very-different-and/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df5/noam-chomsky-42_biologist_for-us-we-are-all-very-different-our-lan_595773.jpg) > [There is no evolutionary pressure to create minds capable of forming sciences; it just happened. Evolutionary pressure has not led to higher…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/there-is-no-evolutionary-pressure-to-create-minds-capable-of-forming/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d8d/noam-chomsky-42_biology_there-is-no-evolutionary-pressure-to-cre_711024.jpg) > [My feeling is that a human being or any complex organism has a system of cognitive structures that develop much in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/my-feeling-is-that-a-human-being-or-any-complex-organism-has-a-system/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0a/noam-chomsky-42_assuming_my-feeling-is-that-a-human-being-or-any_422783.jpg) ## Other authors on Biology - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-richard-dawkins-78503.jpg) Richard Dawkins 67 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/biology/richard-dawkins/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-stephen-jay-gould-87041.jpg) Stephen Jay Gould 40 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/biology/stephen-jay-gould/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-e-o-wilson-31102.jpg) E. 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Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/there-are-questions-as-to-whether-it-should-even-exist-who-should/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/governments-regard-their-own-citizens-as-their-main-enemy-and-they/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/i-don-t-join-the-new-atheists-so-for-example-i-wouldn-t-have-the/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/the-first-thing-you-ought-to-do-is-verify-what-i-present-just-because/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [ I wrote an article about the marine landing \[in Haiti\] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/i-wrote-an-article-about-the-marine-landing-in-haiti-right-away-but/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/american-society-is-now-remarkably-atomized-political-organizations/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/discovery-is-the-ability-to-be-puzzled-by-simple-things-noam-chomsky/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/there-s-an-interesting-book-about-that-called-the-third-reich-and-the/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/this-is-class-war-on-an-international-scale-and-power-is-in-the-hands/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that these people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/there-are-big-extremely-irrational-parts-of-the-society-and-they-have/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/there-s-plenty-to-criticize-about-the-mass-media-but-they-are-the/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) > [The 50,000 Korean mercenaries we had in Vietnam were professional killers and just massacred people outright. And the American army did plenty of that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/the-50-000-korean-mercenaries-we-had-in-vietnam-were-professional/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/biology/noam-chomsky/#itemlist", "name": "11 Biology Quotes By Noam Chomsky", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Like other organisms, humans have a certain genetic endowment (apparently varying little in the species, not a surprise considering its recent separation from other hominids). 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Scientists do routinely ask…” — Noam Chomsky", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It's roughly the case that if systems become too complex to study in sufficient depth, physics hands them over to chemistry, then to biology, then experimental psychology, and finally on to history. Roughly. 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But if we could extract ourselves from our point of view and sort of look down at human life the way a biologist looks at other organisms, I think we could see it a different way.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Noam Chomsky" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/for-us-we-are-all-very-different-our-languages-are-very-different-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df5/noam-chomsky-42_biologist_for-us-we-are-all-very-different-our-lan_595773.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df5/noam-chomsky-42_biologist_for-us-we-are-all-very-different-our-lan_595773.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df5/noam-chomsky-42_biologist_for-us-we-are-all-very-different-our-lan_595773.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“For us, we are all very different, our languages are very different, and our societies are very different…” — Noam Chomsky", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There is no evolutionary pressure to create minds capable of forming sciences; it just happened. 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