Biological Quotes

550 Biological quotes by 385 unique authors

I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition… — John F. Kennedy
The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the… — Herbert Marcuse
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon… — Albert Einstein
For a bookworm like Mother, a Brontë novel sister was better than a biological one. — Eileen Favorite
Mental patterns do not originate out of inorganic nature. They originate out of society, which originates out of inorganic nature. And, as anthropologists know so… — Robert M. Pirsig
Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic condition… — Karl Rahner
The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground,… — Wendell Berry
A farm includes the passion of the farmer's heart, the interest of the farm's customers, the biological activity in the soil, the pleasantness of the… — Joel Salatin
History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves — Jared Diamond
Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious,… — H P Lovecraft
What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active,… — H.G. Wells
He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into… — George Orwell
Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. It… — Kay Redfield Jamison
He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and… — Zadie Smith
Biological clock? I don't even own a watch. — Sarah Mlynowski
Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation. — Robert A. Heinlein
Biological family is too small of a vision. Patriotism is far too myopic. A love for our own relatives and a love for the people… — Shane Claiborne
I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Leaving out appraisal also would render the biological description of the phenomena of emotion vulnerable to the caricature that emotions without an appraisal phase are… — Antonio Damasio
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a… — Albert Einstein
Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can't name the tune. — Deepak Chopra
We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world is ours. We are its… — Paolo Bacigalupi
...how much needless despair has been caused by a series of biological mismatches, a misalignment of the hormones and pheromones? Resulting in the fact that… — Margaret Atwood
Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn’t a learned behavior. It’s just some unknown biological factor that… — J.A. Konrath
As a professor in two fields, neurology and psychiatry, I am fully aware of the extent to which man is subject to biological, psychological and… — Viktor E. Frankl

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