Biology Quote by Emil Cioran

“[E]ven through our limitations, we evolve rather than fail, the way a caterpillar becomes a chrysalis becomes a butterfly, and the succession of life's…

— Mark Nepo

“I have come to understand, like Darwin had, that earthworms are not destroyers, but redeemers. They move through waste and decay in their contemplative…

— Amy Stewart

There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must have been Drosophila.

— Alfred Sturtevant

“Not that food which entereth into the moth defileth a man, but the appetite with which it is eaten. It is neither the quality…

— Henry David Thoreau

“I feel like the caterpillar that we think is making a choice when he eats or pupates but, in fact, is not. He's ruled…

— Poppy Adams

“What is proposed is nothing but the replacement of the old unintelligent, inevitable, almost unconscious fertility by an intelligently controlled, conscious fertility, and the…

— George Bernard Shaw

“There is no such thing as perfection, only the relentless, thirsty matching of an organism to its environment. That is the engine that drives…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“...the more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life. And we, wrapped round…

— Maxim Gorky

“The fact that our current planetary evolution is built upon one creature having to physically consume another to survive shows our deep limitation.”

— Richard Rudd

“The fact that you came from a very beautiful worm demonstrate that, evolution is more romantic than scientific. Thus, it arouses the mind rather…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“If natural selection can create creationists it can manage a caterpillar with a face on its arse.”

— Zane Stumpo

“It occurs to me that we crush insects beneath our feet, miracles of creation too, beetles, worms, cockroaches, ants, in their various ways.”

— J.M. Coetzee