Biology Quotes - Page 2

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

  Jared Diamond

  Unique, Evolution, Concepts

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• Politics is applied biology.

  Ernst Haeckel

  Politics

  "Ernst Haeckel: the art of evolution - in pictures" by Rainer Willmann, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2017.

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• We feel the beauty of nature because we are part of nature and because we know that however much in our separate domains we abstract from the unity of Nature, this unity remains. Although we may deal with particulars, we return finally to the whole pattern woven out of these.

  Ernest Everett Just

  Beauty, Nature, Knowing

  Ernest Everett Just (1939). “The Biology of the Cell Surface”, Taylor & Francis

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

  Helen Fisher

  Spiritual, Feelings

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• Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.

  James D. Watson

  Future, Science, Years

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• Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.

  Thomas Huxley

  Assumption, Chemistry, Sometimes

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.60, Cambridge University Press

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• Biology is destiny only for girls.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Girl, Destiny, Sexism

  Elizabeth Hardwick (2011). “Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature”, p.189, New York Review of Books

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• It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life.

  Lewis Wolpert

  Life, Marriage, Death

  "From Egg to Embryo: Determinative Events in Early Development". Book by J.M.W. Slack, Ch. 1, 1999.

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• Your biography becomes your biology. This biography includes the totality of your choices, the things you feed your body - you thoughts, your actions, your food - the thing you feed your life.

  Caroline Myss

  Choices, Body, Biographies

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• I had gone to school to study marine biology.

  Skeet Ulrich

  School, Marine, Gone

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• And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry.

  Michael Polanyi

  Achievement, Chemistry, Physics

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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

  Breakthrough, Phenomenon, Connected

  "Funding above and beyond scientific research". Interview with Holger Breithaupt, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. September 15, 2001.

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• Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, it is distorted and untrue, if it puts its primary focus on unnatural conditions rather than on those vast forces not of man's making that shape and channel the nature and direction of life.

  Rachel Carson

  Men, Focus, Shapes

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

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

  Richard Dawkins

  Ideas, Free Will, Comfortable

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• The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.

  E. O. Wilson

  Believe, Mind, Religion

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• You may consider yourself an individual, but as a cell biologist, I can tell you that you are in truth a cooperative community of approximately fifty trillion single-celled citizens.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Single, Cells, People

  Bruce H. Lipton (2010). “The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles: Easyread Large Edition”, p.28, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  C. J. Cherryh

  Culture, Conditions, Living Conditions

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• A cell is regarded as the true biological atom.

  George Henry Lewes

  Science, Cells, Atoms

  George Henry Lewes (1859). “The physiology of common life”

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

  Leon Kass

  Life Is, Late, Notion

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• The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Philosophy, Men

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.297, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.

  Ariel Durant

  Science, Law, Fundamentals

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Nature, Science, Psychology

  W. V. Quine, Willard Van Orman Quine (1981). “Theories and Things”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into the study of ultimate (evolutionary) causes, the subject of natural history.

  Ernst Mayr

  Science, Causes, Study

  Ernst Mayr (1982). “The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance”, p.67, Harvard University Press

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• The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.

  Francis Crick

  Facts, Movement, Chemistry

  "Of Molecules and Men". Book by Francis Crick, p. 10, 1966.

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

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Pregnancy, Years, Half

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