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Biology Quotes by Steven Pinker
- 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,…
- 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…
- Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology.
- I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under the constraints imposed…
- One can choose to obsess over prescriptive rules, but they have no more to do with human language than the criteria for judging cats at…
- The typical imperative from biology is not "Thou shalt... ," but "If ... then ... else.
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- In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but… — 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,… — Alton Brown
- High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year we were… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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,… — Stewart Brand