Biology Quotes

Plants can be affected by stray voltage and they may show stunted growth, deformed growth, or go dormant. In extreme cases they may die.

Consciousness is the chronic pain of life, and all higher organisms suffer it every waking moment.

Life for me is just a result of experiments being performed by far more developed creatures.

No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man.

No human, no matter how ancient, or how popular, can be above the laws of Nature.

Things to know from books to read

The textbook in question in the infamous Scope's Monkey Trial was partially written by the Harvard educated white supremacist, Charles B. Davenport.

All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities

I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study of the plants themselves.[Letter to W.H. Harvey]

This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the ashcan of history for a deposit of Geoffrey's ideas about anatomical unity.

I'm doing now with cornets exactly what I used to do with trilobites: measuring, analyzing and cataloging the myriad gradations of their forms.

If Charles Darwin reappeared today, he might be surprised to learn that humans are descended from viruses as well as from apes.

Indeed, not all attacks—especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin—are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.

I furnished the body that was needed to sit in the defendant's

Evolution is more about adaptivity than adaptability.

Signal transduction science recognizes that the fate and behavior of an organism is directly linked to its perception of the environment.

Angelo, " he said, and felt the bed rock as Angelo shuddered, caught halfway between REM atonia - the inhibition of movement caused by the shutdown of monoamines in the brain - and waking.

Dams also tend to be built in remote areas which are the last refuge for species that have been displaced by development in other regions.

Biology, list history, is not built with 'if's.

We are not victims of our genes, but masters of our fates, able to create lives overflowing with peace, happiness, and love.

She could not be silent even if the men of science, many of them smug experts in white lab coats who promised “better living through chemistry, ” dismissed her warnings as feminine hysteria.

Water is one of the least understood aspects of biology.

Disease may be defined as 'A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment.

Very high altitude astronomy only works by ignoring established biological science

A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.

The typical imperative from biology is not "Thou shalt..., " but "If ... then ... else.

Life is stranger than biology textbooks.

The human interpretation of a disability is a primitive departmentalized view of ignorance.

I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no.

Biologists will teach us that the survival of the species depends on cooperation, not competition.

Before the girl and the boy tie the knot, they feel like falling in love. And most of them do. Cupid works. Biology demands. And, sociology warrants.

No, Carolyn, you can’t petition PETA to get a waiver from dissecting the frog. The frog’s already dead. It donated itself to science. Don’t let its sacrifice be in vain. -Brandon

Heavy resistance strength training (loads > 85% 1RM) appears to evoke significant gains in maximal eccentric muscle strength.

...we do not own these woods. They own us.

I knew I was going to be a cellular biologist whose research would focus on scrutinizing every nuance of the cell's ultrastructure to gain insights into the secrets of cellular life.

TP53 seems to encode the greater good, like a suicide pill in the mouth of a soldier that dissolves only when it detects evidence that he is about to mutiny.

Our terminal decline into old age and death stems from the fine print of the contract that we signed with our mitochondria two billion years ago.

Oxygen deprivation and supplemental oxygen are both bio-hazards for Mauna Kea workers

Biogeography typically trumps taxonomy and anticipates molecular phylogeny

For humans—trapped in biology—there was no mercy: we lived a while, we fussed around for a bit and died, we rotted in the ground like garbage.

It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons

If you happen to be one of the people who has a split zygomaticus major muscle, where the lower part of it is tethered to the overlying skin, this will create a dimple in your cheek when you smile.

Imagine a house coming together spontaneously from all the information contained in the bricks: that is how animal bodies are made.

Love is poetry plus biology.

From a biology point of view, the purpose of humanity is to ensure his survival by expanding his domain into the stars.

...it is entirely illogical to consider biology in dichotomous terms of genes and environment—all of biology is based on the continuous interaction of both.

All human movement is expressive.

The more closely two organisms depend upon each other the harder it becomes to tell where one organism ends and the other begins.

The same few dozen organic molecules are used over and over again in biology for the widest variety of functions.

The cause of nutrition and growth resides not in the organism as a whole but in the separate elementary parts—the cells.