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Biology Quotes

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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
Shane Koyczan

Authors on Biology Quotes: Elliott Sober Richard Dawkins Stephen Jay Gould Sam Cooke George Will Bill Gates David Eagleman E. O. Wilson Robert Lanza Lynne Tillman Adrienne Rich C. J. Cherryh Steven Morrissey Brandon Sanderson John Maynard Smith Elizabeth Hardwick James Frey Richard Mourdock Christina Hoff Sommers James Rothman Hans Schemm Hal Abelson Thomas Cech Kristina Schroder Dave Eggers Gregory Bateson Phil Zuckerman Steven Pinker Andrew Bird John Pople Daniel Dennett Helen Caldicott Richard P. Feynman
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Teleology is a lady without whom no biologist can live. Yet he is ashamed to show himself with her in public.
Ernst Wilhelm von Brucke

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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.
Jason Silva

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

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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.
Sam Cooke

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Biology transcends society.
Jessie Redmon Fauset

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

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Politics is applied biology.
Ernst Haeckel

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

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

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

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[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.
Hal Abelson

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We all know interspecies romance is weird.
Tim Burton

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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.
James Hillman

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

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

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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.
David Brin

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

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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.
Thomas Cech

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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.
Wilhelm Ostwald

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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.
Israel Gelfand

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

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

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Your biography becomes your biology.
Caroline Myss

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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

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

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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

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

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

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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
John Maynard Smith

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

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

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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.
Christina Hoff Sommers

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

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

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

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

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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.
Eugenie Scott

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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.
Roseanne Barr

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

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Ubiquity must never be mistaken for biology.
Phil Zuckerman

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Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.
David Eagleman

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

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One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.
Elizabeth Moon

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

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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.
Richard Dawkins

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There are no monotone "values" in biology.
Gregory Bateson

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

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

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