Biology Quotes · Page 13

I had gone to school to study marine biology.

— Skeet Ulrich

A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose.

— Anonymous

“Inspiration is the key to our evolution.”

— Eddie Peña

“I believe that compassion is the key to our evolution as a species.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.

— Sri Aurobindo

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

— Walter Gilbert

For the first time in evolution as a species, we're hitting an energy ceiling.

— Matt Bellamy

help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism.

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Neuroscience is now a very important research area in biology. We are now understanding a lot more about brains in babies, as…

— Robert Winston

“Maybe if you had megaphones on your chest they'd listen to the words that came out of your lips”

— Amby C. Ezem

We must [it has been arued] go beyond reductionism to a holistic recognition that biology and culture interpenetrate in an inextricable manner.

— Stephen Jay Gould

We are moving from unconscious evolution through natural selection to conscious evolution by choice.

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in…

— Jared Diamond

I believe God controls the universe. I don't believe biology works in an uncontrolled fashion.

— Richard Mourdock

I have come to recognize evolution not only as an active process that I am experiencing at the time, but as something…

— Jonas Salk

It was an effort to include intelligent design and treat it as science, disparaging evolution along the way. That will not stand.

— Barry W. Lynn

One can say, looking at the papers in this symposium, that the elucidation of the genetic code is indeed a great achievement.…

— Francis Crick

“Amazing. She retains a professor of genetics, an alien of extraordinary abilities, to help find her father, she travels for a week,…

— Graeme Simsion

When I was a child, my parents taught a literal creation. By the time I was in my 20s they were accommodating…

— Frank Schaeffer

I majored in economics in college. Certain things were just out, like chemistry or biology, or science or math, that was just…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

Chance is hugely significant in biology. In fact, the presence of apparent randomness in so many aspects of biology - from mutations…

— Alice Roberts

I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for…

— B. F. Skinner

There's an interdependence between flowers and bees. Where there are no flowers there are no bees, and where there are no bees,…

— Alan Watts

Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad. If used wisely, genetics can…

— Hideo Kojima

As soon as we touch the complex processes that go on in a living thing, be it plant or animal, we are…

— John Jacob Abel

“For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity.…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future. To understand…

— Rachel Carson

We have to create a sustainable environment, worldwide, and we're not doing it. The best thing we can do with the rest…

— E. O. Wilson

“In other instances, some of these animals may have made it to a particular area and become extinct for various reasons —…

— Ken Ham

“A tissue is evidently an enduring thing. It's functional and structural conditions become modified from moment to moment. Time is really the…

— Alexis Carrel

Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform…

— Anonymous

Biology occupies a position among the sciences at once marginal and central. Marginal because-the living world constituting but a tiny and very…

— Jacques Monod

“Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science and Bad Religion in a World Without God.”

— Greg Graffin

I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions.

— Jock Sturges

We're the last billionth of a second in the evolution of matter.

— Don DeLillo

“Evolution is, as an engineer, an opportunist, not a perfectionist.”

— Stanisław Lem

All of our health is basically genetics.

— Frank Langella

“The laws of genetics apply even if you refuse to learn them.”

— Allison Plowden

There is more to biology than rats, Drosophila, Caenorhabditis, and E. coli.

— Ernst Mayr

Evolution is a snail, but Revolution is a kangaroo; one crawls, other jumps!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan