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That the fundamental aspects of heredity should have turned out to be so extraordinarily simple supports us in the hope that nature may, after all,… — Thomas Hunt Morgan
The development of an organism ... may be considered as the execution of a 'developmental program' present in the fertilized egg. ... A central task… — Unknown Author
The next decade will perhaps raise us a step above despair to a cleaner, clearer wisdom and biology cannot fail to help in this. As… — H. Bentley Glass
The study of taxonomy in its broadest sense is probably the oldest branch of biology or natural history as well as the basis for all… — Richard E. Blackwelder
The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest and most difficult… — H. Bentley Glass
Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license. — Erwin Chargaff
We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of heredity, development and… — C. D. Darlington
The big idea we start with is: "How is the genome interpreted, and how are stable decisions that affect gene expression inherited from one cell… — Shirley M. Tilghman
It is easy to make out three areas where scientists will be concentrating their efforts in the coming decades. One is in physics, where leading… — Dennis Flanagan
Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept. — Unknown Author
The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that accounts for the… — Douglas J. Futuyma
Evolution lies at the heart of biology. It is seamlessly and continuously linked to health research to better understand such conditions as AIDS or bird… — Unknown Author
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an unproved… — L. Harrison Matthews
I have been a biologist for a long time, and I hope I never stop getting shivers in my spine when I think about the… — Unknown Author
Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium. — Camille Paglia
The fundamental reason why carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is critically important to biology is that there is so little of it. A field of… — Freeman Dyson
One thought spectra are marvellous, but it is not possible to make progress there. Just as if you have the wing of a butterfly then… — Niels Bohr
When I was very young, biology, the diversity of life, was one of my main interests. I know there's this image people have that I'm… — Leonardo DiCaprio
In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in economics, evolutionary biology,… — Steven Pinker
Now we see evolutionary trends in a variety of areas ranging from atomic and molecular physics through fluid mechanics, chemistry and biology to large scale… — Ilya Prigogine
There is economics in biology, nothing is free, everything has to be paid for, there are costs as well as benefits to everything in life,… — Richard Dawkins
Rulers do not like to admit that their power is restricted by any laws other than those of physics and biology. They never ascribe their… — Ludwig von Mises
If it were possible to transfer the methods of physical or of biological science directly to the study of man, the transfer would long ago… — Unknown Author
If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology. — Shlomo Sand
Our task now is to resynthesize biology; put the organism back into its environment; connect it again to its evolutionary past; and let us feel… — Carl Woese

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