Biological Quotes
550 Biological quotes by 385 unique authors
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Since biological change occurs slowly and cultural changes occur in every generation, it is futile to try to explain the fleeting phenomena of culture by…
— Unknown Author
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Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the…
— Stanislav Grof
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Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences not just our…
— Mary Midgley
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It struck me recently, that one should really consider the sequence of a protein molecule about to fold into a precise geometric form as a…
— Christian B. Anfinsen
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The terrorists who have succeeded in carrying out spectacular attacks against Western targets in the past have been college-educated, technically proficient men who are capable…
— Peter Bergen
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As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found…
— Joshua Lederberg
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Why does everyone take for granted that we don't learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms? Similarly, we should conclude that…
— Noam Chomsky
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The Iraqi regime . . . possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons. We know that the regime has produced…
— George W. Bush
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To be rapeable, a position that is social, not biological, defines what a woman is.
— Andrea Dworkin
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Chimps are unbelievably like us - in biological, non-verbal ways. They can be loving and compassionate and yet they have a dark side... 98 per…
— Jane Goodall
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Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance to that poor…
— Margaret Sanger
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Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it... Eliminate one species, and another increases to take its place.…
— E. O. Wilson
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In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.
— Sigmund Freud
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A boyfriend or a girlfriend may be fun, but cannot become a door to the deepest that is hidden in each and everyone. With a…
— Rajneesh
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To have security against atomic bombs and against the other biological weapons, we have to prevent war, for if we cannot prevent war every nation…
— Albert Einstein
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We find ourselves, one way or another, in the midst of a large-scale experiment to change the chemical construction of the stratosphere, even though we…
— Unknown Author
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Human use of fossil fuels is altering the chemistry of the atmosphere; oceans are polluted and depleted of fish; 80 per cent of Earth's forests…
— David Suzuki
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The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign on for research in biological…
— J. B. Priestley
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The age of nations has passed. Now, unless we wish to perish, we must shake off our old prejudices and build the Earth. The more…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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If it were possible to transfer the methods of physical or of biological science directly to the study of man, the transfer would long ago…
— Unknown Author
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Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if we lived on…
— George Monbiot
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Because the biological mechanisms that affect our health and well-being are so dynamic, when people change their diet and lifestyle, they usually feel so much…
— Dean Ornish
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We are the environment. The world is literally one biological process. The trees are our lungs. Look at the Amazon River system next to a…
— Ian Somerhalder
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I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that…
— Richard Dawkins
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A biological agent, I’ll buy. Some sort of super-virus? Sure, why not. But death? Death is a disability, not a superpower. It’s hard to run…
— Simon Pegg
Who Wrote These Biological Quotes
385 authors contributed a total of 550 Biological Quotes, led by these top contributors: