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401 Biology quotes by 293 unique authors
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We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.
— Jeremy Rifkin
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When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little decorations. The very…
— Steven Pinker
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The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved…
— Charles Darwin
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Sex Ed - when I finally got to take it - was all about biology and birth control and nothing about anything that actually goes…
— E. Lockhart
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If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
— Auguste Comte
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And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations…
— Michael Polanyi
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Industrial opportunities are going to stem more from the biological sciences than from chemistry and physics. I see biology as being the greatest area of…
— George E. Brown, Jr.
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We may, I believe, anticipate that the chemist of the future who is interested in the structure of proteins, nucleic acids, polysaccharides, and other complex…
— Linus Pauling
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We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such diverse fields as…
— Michael Shermer
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Don't know much about history Don't know much biology.
— Sam Cooke
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Men's ideas about what women are have been formed from their ruling caste position, and have assigned women characteristics that would most advantage their masters,…
— Sheila Jeffreys
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The laws of biology are written in the language of diversity.
— E. O. Wilson
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Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.
— Jared Diamond
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Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile of sundry…
— Theodosius Dobzhansky
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Paleontologist Niles Eldredge, a prominent evolutionist, said: 'The doubt that has infiltrated the previous, smugly confident certitude of evolutionary biology’s last twenty years has inflamed…
— Niles Eldredge
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National Socialism is applied biology,
— Hans Schemm
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Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for study.
— David Pilbeam
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Most likely, logic is capable of justifying mathematics to no greater extent than biology is capable of justifying life.
— IU?. I. Manin
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But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical…
— David Brin
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A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is far more Darwinian…
— David M. Raup
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Through the discovery of Buchner, Biology was relieved of another fragment of mysticism. The splitting up of sugar into CO2 and alcohol is no more…
— Jacques Loeb
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The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm.
— Peter Agre
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When you choose to view your stress response as helpful, you create the biology of courage.
— Kelly McGonigal
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A renaissance in cellular biology has recently revealed the molecular mechanisms by which thoughts and perceptions directly influence gene activity and cell behavior...Energy psychology, through…
— Bruce H. Lipton
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Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of…
— Elizabeth Janeway
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