Biological Quotes
550 Biological quotes by 385 unique authors
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Biological determinism is, in its essence, a theory of limits. It takes the current status of groups as a measure of where they should and…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows and solidities are…
— George Henry Lewes
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The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its chemical identification by…
— Jacques Monod
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We know the laws of trial and error, of large numbers and probabilities. We know that these laws are part of the mathematical and mechanical…
— Albert Claude
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Until I became a parent, I thought children just naturally knew how to catch a ball, that catching was an instinctive biological reflex that all…
— Dave Barry
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Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits of doing, thinking,…
— John Dewey
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Unless we cut the world population there is no way to avoid violence. People are hungry, people are starving, dying. When somebody is hungry he…
— Rajneesh
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The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads…
— George Mikes
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[Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil].
— E. O. Wilson
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If I had to define life in a single phrase, I should clearly express my thought of throwing into relief one characteristic which, in my…
— Claude Bernard
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During the time that [Karl] Landsteiner gave me an education in the field of imununology, I discovered that he and I were thinking about the…
— Linus Pauling
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In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the universal occurrence of…
— E. O. Wilson
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Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and children, and is…
— Margaret Mead
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About the time I turned 50, I experienced the profound biological change that often accompanies women at that age. Also, I put two kids in…
— Jane Pauley
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The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations, can be phrased…
— E. O. Wilson
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But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has a rather crude…
— Jacob Bronowski
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All scientists agree that evolution has occurred-that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new biological…
— Lynn Margulis
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Evolutionary biologists have been able to pretend to know how complex biological systems originated only because they treated them as black boxes. Now that biochemists…
— Phillip E. Johnson
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Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is…
— Betty Rollin
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Scientists themselves readily admit that they do not fully understand the consequences of our many-faceted assault upon the interwoven fabric of atmosphere, water, land and…
— Prince Charles
Who Wrote These Biological Quotes
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