Big picture Quote by Robert M. Sapolsky

From a scientist's perspective, to understand everything that you need to know about human beings, you only have to tinker with all the mechanical…

— Deepak Chopra

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

Complex organisms cannot be construed as the sum of their genes, nor do genes alone build particular items of anatomy or behavior by themselves.…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Reductionist ideology not only hinders biologists from thinking adequately about the phenomena we wish to understand: it has two important social consequences: it serves…

— Steven Rose

Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Richard Dawkins

Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.

— Walter Gilbert

“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

“The gene provides an organizing principle for modern biology—and it tantalizes us with the prospect of controlling our bodies and fates.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Beyond natural history Other biological sciences take up the study at other levels of organization: dissecting the individual into organs and tissues and seeing…

— Marston Bates

We look at the human body as a biochemical machine controlled by genes and therefore we see a mechanical aspect to life and then…

— Bruce H. Lipton

We must [it has been arued] go beyond reductionism to a holistic recognition that biology and culture interpenetrate in an inextricable manner.

— Stephen Jay Gould