Biology Quotes

Maybe the best we can hope for is that those we leave behind find comfort in knowing, that we’re born out of love, and not science. That biology explains the how, but love explains the why

Teleology is a lady without whom no biologist can live. Yet he is ashamed to show himself with her in public.

We didn't stay in the caves. We haven't stayed on the planet. With biotechnology, gene sequencing, we are not going to even stay within the limitations of biology.

As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones.

Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took.

Biology transcends society.

I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology.

Politics is applied biology.

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

in terms of the biology of the planet, development is a euphemism for destruction.

But biology and computer science - life and computation - are related. I am confident that at their interface great discoveries await those who seek them.

[Computer science] is not really about computers and it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators, and biology is not about microscopes and Petri dishes... and geometry isn't really about using surveying instruments.

We all know interspecies romance is weird.

Don't know much about history Don't know much biology.

Yes, there's genetics. Yes, there are chromosomes. Yes, there's biology. Yes, there are environment, sociology, parenting, economics, class, and all of that. But there is something else, as well.

Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.

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 physical science.

There is more to biology than rats, Drosophila, Caenorhabditis, and E. coli.

But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.

Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.

Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality.

We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions.

Eugene Wigner wrote a famous essay on the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences. He meant physics, of course. There is only one thing which is more unreasonable than the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in physics, and this is the unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics in biology.

Your biography becomes your biology.

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.

There's biology in everything, even when you're feeling spiritual.

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

Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.

Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.

We reject creationism because there is no evidence to support it. By contrast, the notion that biology is at least partially the basis of gender is an empirically supportable, and even well-supported, proposition. The gender scholars reject it on ideological, not evidentiary, grounds.

Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.

Paradoxically, it has turned out that game theory is more readily applied to biology than to the field of economic behavior for which it was originally designed

DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

Most likely, logic is capable of justifying mathematics to no greater extent than biology is capable of justifying life.

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

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

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

Evolution makes biology make sense. And if you don't teach your students the evolutionary core of biology, you're making it harder for them.

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.

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

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

Ubiquity must never be mistaken for biology.

Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.

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

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

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

You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose - and that means evolution.

There are no monotone "values" in biology.

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

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