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We know the laws of trial and error, of large numbers and probabilities. We know that these laws are part of the mathematical and mechanical… — Albert Claude
We must [it has been arued] go beyond reductionism to a holistic recognition that biology and culture interpenetrate in an inextricable manner. — Stephen Jay Gould
The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan and their followers.… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that lights the history of the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite… — Jean Genet
Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store… — Sergey Brin
Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists founded chemistry by… — Claude Bernard
It is now widely realized that nearly all the 'classical' problems of molecular biology have either been solved or will be solved in the next… — Sydney Brenner
A sound Physics of the Earth should include all the primary considerations of the earth's atmosphere, of the characteristics and continual changes of the earth's… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
The major credit I think Jim and I deserve ... is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It's true that by blundering… — Francis Crick
The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand. — James D. Watson
The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible. — John Shelby Spong
To be motherly is a totally different phenomenon. It is something absolutely human; it transcends animality. It has nothing to do with biology. It is… — Rajneesh
The brain is biology's greatest challenge. Perhaps in a sense it is the greatest challenge for science as a whole, beyond moon landings, the ultimate… — Steven Rose
There is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death. This suggests to me that it is not at all inevitable and… — Richard P. Feynman
For this knowledge of right living, we have sought a new name... . As theology is the science of religious life, and biology the science… — Ellen Swallow Richards
Geology differs from physics, chemistry, and biology in that the possibilities for experiment are limited. — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
I would like to start by emphasizing the importance of surfaces. It is at a surface where many of our most interesting and useful phenomena… — Unknown Author
It is an old saying, abundantly justified, that where sciences meet there growth occurs. It is true moreover to say that in scientific borderlands not… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins
It is my belief that the basic knowledge that we're providing to the world will have a profound impact on the human condition and the… — Craig Venter
It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach to grammar, pioneered… — Niels Kaj Jerne
Many thanks for the sending me the book Biology of the Striped Skunk ... Frankly, I doubt whether I shall read it or not, unless… — Unknown Author
Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as well as in… — Thomas Hunt Morgan
Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ... Biology as a… — Donna J. Haraway
Teleology is a lady without whom no biologist can live. Yet he is ashamed to show himself with her in public. — Unknown Author

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