Biology Quotes

401 quotes by 308 authors

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
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
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
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
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
You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology. — Deepak Chopra
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
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
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
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
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
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
A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself. — Jacques Monod
A cell is regarded as the true biological atom. — George Henry Lewes
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
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
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
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
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
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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