Biology Quotes · Page 46

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

— Kamil Ali

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

— Debra Fischer

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

— Scott Westerfeld

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

— Martin Dansky

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

— Martin Faulks

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

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

— Elizabeth Blackburn

The first generation of biotech physically cut and pasted from one organism to another. You learned that taxol helped cure cancer, then…

— Steve Jurvetson

Evolutionism as taught by Darwinism has nothing to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles…

— Ben Stein

Evolutionary biology is genuinely scientific, but more than that it opens the door to a world more marvellous than any Christian fundamentalist…

— Ambrose Bierce

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

“I learn to divert cells in my body, manipulate meridians, but I can’t grow stronger without external force. Faria provides it. Evolution…

— Adam Burch

“Toshiaki learned that all living organisms were governed by their DNA. He was impressed by perfection of this system.Why did existence have…

— Hideaki Sena

“Our darkest fiction is full of Orwellian dystopias, shadowy cabals, and mind-controlling supervillains. But it turns out that the brainless, microscopic, single-celled…

— Ed Yong

No matter how little we think anatomy should matter to one's social and political rights, surely we can't pretend biology doesn't matter…

— Alice Dreger

The literal record was not a hopelessly and imperfect fraction of truly insensible gradation within large populations but an accurate reflection of…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“If we think in term of months, we had probably focus on immediate problems such as the turmoil in the Middle East,…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“We do not inhabit a perfected world where natural selection ruthlessly scrutinizes all organic structures and then molds them for optimal utility.…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“[On scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss] [Carl Friedrich] Gauss told his friend Rudolf Wagner, a professor of biology at Gottingen University, that he…

— Gerhard Falk

There are times when one feels liberated from one’s limits and human imperfections. At such moments, we see ourselves there, in a…

— Albert Einstein

It is an old saying, abundantly justified, that where sciences meet there growth occurs. It is true moreover to say that in…

— Frederick Gowland Hopkins

There is economics in biology, nothing is free, everything has to be paid for, there are costs as well as benefits to…

— Richard Dawkins

“What is natural selection? Do organisms develop due to an environment, or does the environment only trigger the potential to evolve in…

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Tim Noakes

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

— Colson Whitehead

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

— Gregory Bateson

I have great genetics. However, I put in the work, let's just add that in there too.

— Jade Cargill

In fact perhaps the only law in biology is that all flesh is mortal and all species become extinct eventually.

— Richard Lewontin

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.

— Alvin Toffler

Our own species evolved under the influence of group selection, as Darwin emphasized when he discussed the evolution of altruism.

— Elliott Sober

But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.

— Richard P. Feynman

Biology can be said to define possibilities but not determine them; it is never irrelevant but it is also not determinant.

— Cordelia Fine

“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

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

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

— Nicholas Wade

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

— Thomas Suddendorf

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

— African Spir

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

— Richard Levins