Biology Quotes

• Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the environmental signals that propel life.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Life, Character, Science

  Bruce H. Lipton (2015). “The Biology of Belief 10th Anniversary Edition: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles”, p.12, Hay House, Inc

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• Good biology without good philosophy will be a calamity.

  George Will

  Philosophy, Calamity, Good Philosophy

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• Biology is a science of three dimensions. The first is the study of each species across all levels of biological organization, molecule to cell to organism to population to ecosystem. The second dimension is the diversity of all species in the biosphere. The third dimension is the history of each species in turn, comprising both its genetic evolution and the environmental change that drove the evolution. Biology, by growing in all three dimensions, is progressing toward unification and will continue to do so.

  E. O. Wilson

  Science, Ecosystems, Organization

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• Biology always beats will power.

  Mehmet Oz

  Beats, Will Power

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• The laws of biology are written in the language of diversity.

  E. O. Wilson

  Law, Diversity, Language

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

  Ernst Mayr

  Rats

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• Biology is a software process. Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells, each governed by this process. You and I are walking around with outdated software running in our bodies, which evolved in a very different era.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Running, Cells, Different

  "Google's Ray Kurzweil on the quest to live forever". Interview with Kate Lunau, www.macleans.ca. October 14, 2013.

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• Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Love, Life, Learning

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.479, A&C Black

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

  Richard Dawkins

  Giving, Purpose, Study

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Past, Environmental

  Preface to "Humane Biology Projects" by the Animal Welfare Institute, 1961.

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• Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Health, Science, Light

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• The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.

  Edward Abbey

  Thinking, Study, Physics

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• Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

  Ray Comfort

  Ideas, Fundamentals, Evolution

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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

  Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics

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• Biology transcends society.

  Jessie Redmon Fauset

  Jessie Redmon Fauset (2013). “The Chinaberry Tree: A Novel of American Life”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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• Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Mothers Day, Mom

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• Mood reflects the biology of the brain. How you feel is affected by the chemicals in the brain, and these are the same chemicals that form the basis of mood-altering drugs. You may use yoga, meditation, cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) or exercise to alter your mood, or revert to healthy eating, regular exercise and getting enough sleep.

  Liz Miller

  Yoga, Sleep, Exercise

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• In my heart I believe that biology is the beginning and the end of everything. It's the biggest source of ideas, the biggest source of invention. Nobody can invent better than nature and so if you like nature is my biggest source of inspiration.

  Ken Yeang

  Nature, Believe, Inspiration

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.

  David Eagleman

  Reality, Depends, Seizures

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• We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Age, Firsts, Steps

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• I cannot think of a single field in biology or medicine in which we can claim genuine understanding, and it seems to me the more we learn about living creatures, especially ourselves, the stranger life becomes.

  Lewis Thomas

  Life, Science, Thinking

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• I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Technology, Innovation

  "Steve Jobs’s Dying Realization About Biology and Technology" by Luke Timmerman, www.xconomy.com. December 5, 2011.

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• I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Peace, Interesting, People

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.151, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

  Deepak Chopra

  Age, Links, Body

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Dec 13, 2011

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

  Kevin Heath

  Mom, Mother, Dad

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