Best Biology Wisdom
401 Biology quotes by 293 unique authors
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Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore a year older than me, I soon became interested in biology and developed…
— Frederick Sanger
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Natural history is not equivalent to biology. Biology is the study of life. Natural history is the study of animals and plants-of organisms. Biology thus…
— Marston Bates
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[About a conference on Systematic Biology] Many interesting statements were made that apply directly to the work of taxonomists. In some cases the interest lay…
— Richard E. Blackwelder
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As Gove knows.... 'Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more…
— George Orwell
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My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still…
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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When you look at biology, look at the natural world, the roles of a male and a female in society, and other animals, the male…
— Erick Erickson
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Ubiquity must never be mistaken for biology.
— Phil Zuckerman
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One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.
— Elizabeth Moon
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If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary biology is flourishing…
— Niles Eldredge
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If it squirms, it's biology; if it stinks, it's chemistry; if it doesn't work, it's physics; and if you can't understand it, it's mathematics.
— Magnus Pyke
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Biology has progressed tremendously due to the model that Darwin put forth. But the black boxes Darwin accepted are now being opened, and our view…
— Michael Behe
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Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is…
— Albert Memmi
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I like writing about biology, not doing it.
— Kary Mullis
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Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution.
— Kenneth R. Miller
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Altruism has always been one of biology's deep mysteries. Why should any animal, off on its own, specified and labeled by all sorts of signals…
— Lewis Thomas
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Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial…
— Christopher McDougall
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We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under…
— Wilhelm Ostwald
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Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took.
— Sam Cooke
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I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school. And even now, I'm still like, 'Maybe I'll just quit…
— Cobie Smulders
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The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology.
— John Maynard Smith
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I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized that…
— Lois Lowry
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Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.
— Robert Lanza
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My undergraduate degree was in history, and I wish I had been smart enough to really excel at maths, physics, chemistry or biology because... the…
— Michael Moritz
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A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence suggests,…
— Paul Davies
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It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence…
— Paul Davies
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