Biology Quote by Oné R. Pagán

Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary conditions.

— Carl Ludwig

The goal of physiological research is functional nature.

— Walter Rudolf Hess

Physiology has spawned many biological sciences, amongst them my own field of pharmacology.

— John Vane

As a progressive discipline [biochemistry] belongs to the present century. From the experimental physiologists of the last century it obtained a charter, and, from…

— Frederick Gowland Hopkins

The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest and most…

— H. Bentley Glass

The task of neural science is to explain behaviour in terms of the activities of the brain. How does the brain marshall its millions…

— Eric Kandel

“The result of these cumulative efforts to investigate the cell—to investigate life at the molecular level—is a loud, clear, piercing cry of “design!” The…

— Michael J. Behe

In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.

— Sigmund Freud

“Indeed, the underlying precept of the new science of mind is that all mental processes are biological—they all depend on organic molecules and cellular…

— Eric Kandel

I'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena.

— Francisco Varela

Genes are important for understanding our behavior. Incredibly important - after all, they code for every protein pertinent to brain function, endocrinology, etc.

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Scientists have made extraordinary advances in understanding the brain and its disorders.

— Kay Redfield Jamison