Biology Quotes

I'm enjoying my life, post-menopause, so much. It's just so great to grow into yourself, and not be bothered with all that tyranny of biology.

I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

We can truly see that consciousness is operating creatively even in biology, even in the evolution of species.

Computer science is to biology what calculus is to physics. It's the natural mathematical technique that best maps the character of the subject.

The supersession of dualism in biology begins to occur in this science at the moment when the ‘time’ factor is taken into consideration.

There is an authentic biology of hope. Belief and expectation - the key elements of hope - can block pain by releasing the brain's endorphins and enkephalins, mimicking the effects of morphine.

Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept.

It's bad biology to rob nonhuman animals of their emotional lives.

Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.

The science of genetics is in a transition period, becoming an exact science just as the chemistry in the times of Lavoisier, who made the balance an indispensable implement in chemical research.

All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule.

Rulers do not like to admit that their power is restricted by any laws other than those of physics and biology. They never ascribe their failures and frustrations to the violation of economic law.

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.

Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.

The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.

The use of thermodynamics in biology has a long history rich in confusion.

The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.

Biology makes us Mothers & Fathers, whats in the heart makes us Mom's and Dad's

As a chemist, I wanted to ask myself the question frustrated by biology: What is the minimal unit of matter that can undergo Darwinian evolution?

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

Progressively thinking biologists, both in our country and abroad, saw in Darwinism the only right road to the further development of scientific biology.

I had gone to school to study marine biology.

Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply.

To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g. biology) to evaluate certain technical matters.

In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end.

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

Geology differs from physics, chemistry, and biology in that the possibilities for experiment are limited.

Ubiquity must never be mistaken for biology.

The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm.

After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967.

Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.

Biology has progressed tremendously due to the model that Darwin put forth. But the black boxes Darwin accepted are now being opened, and our view of the world is again being shaken.

I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'

I thought the fart was a human thing. It's something to do with like, arse cheeks, or whatever.

If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?

Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit they are baffled.

I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.

Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course.

I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and not after most of them were convinced that evolution had occurred.

Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.

I also suspect that many workers in this field [molecular biology] and related fields have been strongly motivated by the desire, rarely actually expressed, to refute vitalism.

Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.

My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side.

Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.

Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology and A.P. physics and marine biology.

There are no monotone "values" in biology.

I was 12 or 13 years old. So I started to write poetry and fiction, even though I was really into biology because my dad was a science teacher. I kept writing all those years.