Biology Quotes
401 quotes by 308 authors
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If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
— James A. Baldwin
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I'm enjoying my life, post-menopause, so much. It's just so great to grow into yourself, and not be bothered with all that tyranny of biology.
— Roseanne Barr
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In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure…
— Michael Behe
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The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes,…
— Alton Brown
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High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year we were doing Latin, chemistry,…
— Kyle Chandler
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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.
— Deepak Chopra
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If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An honest and competent…
— George Gaylord Simpson
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A strong feeling of adventure is animating those who are working on bacterial viruses, a feeling that they have a small part in the great…
— Max Delbruck
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I took biology in high school and didn't like it at all. It was focused on memorization. ... I didn't appreciate that biology also had…
— Francis Collins
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My research has shown me that when emotions are expressed-which is to say that the biochemicals that are the substrate of emotion are flowing freely-all…
— Candace Pert
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Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back…
— Terence McKenna
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The technology of synthetic biology is currently accelerating at four times the rate of Moore's Law. It's been doing that since 2005, and it's likely…
— Stewart Brand
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A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.
— Jacques Monod
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A cell is regarded as the true biological atom.
— George Henry Lewes
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At lunch Francis [Crick] winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life.
— James D. Watson
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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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Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into the study of ultimate (evolutionary)…
— Ernst Mayr
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I cannot think of a single field in biology or medicine in which we can claim genuine understanding, and it seems to me the more…
— Lewis Thomas
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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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Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
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