Appearance Quote by Richard Dawkins

Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.

— Richard Dawkins

“Richard Dawkins would be the first to agree: “Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for…

— J. Warner Wallace

Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.

— Jared Diamond

In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off…

— Richard Preston

Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile of…

— Anonymous

Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into the study of ultimate…

— Ernst Mayr

Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and bizarre.

— Elizabeth Blackburn

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…

— David Brin

If the task of scientific methodology is to piece together an account of what scientists actually do, then the testimony of biologists should be…

— Peter Medawar

But regular biology, as an "ology," has to be "scientific," and this means in practice that it has to be made dull… Everything has…

— Anthony Standen

Of necessity, a scientist typically studies one incredibly tiny sliver of some biological system, totally ensconced within one discipline, because even figuring out how…

— Robert Sapolsky

If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.

— Joshua Lederberg