Biological Quotes

550 Biological quotes by 385 unique authors

Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our… — E. O. Wilson
Love life first, then march through the gates of each season; go inside nature and develop the discipline to stop destructive behavior; learn tenderness toward… — Gretel Ehrlich
Maybe they'd use biological or chemical weapons instead. Maybe they'd crash the world economy. Maybe they'd turn every program on television into one of those… — Jim Butcher
Here's the thing. I hate kids. Always have. I mean, I know the job of the race, biologically speaking, is to achieve immortality through reproduction,… — Isobelle Carmody
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy. — Yann Martel
As Heinz Pagels has said, The challenge to our civilization which has come from our knowledge of the cosmic energies that fuels the stars, the… — Michio Kaku
Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. From a biological point of view it is inconceivable that any… — Neil Postman
To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony. — Richard Leakey
External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument. — Yusef Lateef
The time has come to lower our voices, to cease imposing our mechanistic patterns on the biological processes of the earth, to resist the impulse… — Thomas Berry
What is happening now is of a geological and biological order of magnitude. We are upsetting the entire earth system that, over some billions of… — Thomas Berry
Though we feel we can choose what we do, our understanding of the molecular basis of biology shows that biological processes are governed by the… — Stephen Hawking
In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry. — Sigmund Freud
Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of… — Christian Lous Lange
It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle — Ashley Montagu
The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance. — Walter Gilbert
The literal record was not a hopelessly and imperfect fraction of truly insensible gradation within large populations but an accurate reflection of the actual process… — Stephen Jay Gould
Biology is a science of three dimensions. The first is the study of each species across all levels of biological organization, molecule to cell to… — E. O. Wilson
Darwin was a biological evolutionist, because he was first a uniformitarian geologist. Biology is pre-eminent to-day among the natural sciences, because its younger sister, Geology,… — Charles Lapworth
Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired. Evolution has produced chemical compounds exquisitely organized to… — Donald Cram
History employs evolution to structure biological events in time. — Stephen Jay Gould
The central problem of biological evolution is the nature of mutation, but hitherto the occurrence of this has been wholly refractory and impossible to influence… — Hermann Joseph Muller
The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human… — Stephen Jay Gould
To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning… — E. O. Wilson
To produce a really good biological theory one must try to see through the clutter produced by evolution to the basic mechanisms lying beneath them,… — Francis Crick

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