Biology Quote by Walter Gilbert

If it squirms, it's biology; if it stinks, it's chemistry; if it doesn't work, it's physics; and if you can't understand it, it's mathematics.

— Magnus Pyke

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

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

— Anonymous

I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.

— Linus Pauling

I'm a huge believer in science. But I don't think it explains everything.

— Andrew Solomon

Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase.

— Nella Larsen

Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.

— Willard Van Orman Quine

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

— Elizabeth Blackburn

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

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

It's so hard to figure out what's going on in biological systems. You just can't see them.

— Erez Lieberman Aiden