Biology Quotes - Page 3

• There is no true understanding of Biology without Chemistry. And there's no true understanding of Chemistry without Physics.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Understanding, Chemistry, Physics

  Twitter post from Apr 24, 2012

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• Biology occupies a position among the sciences at once marginal and central. Marginal because-the living world constituting but a tiny and very "special" part of the universe-it does not seem likely that the study of living beings will ever uncover general laws applicable outside the biosphere. But if the ultimate aim of the whole of science is indeed, as I believe, to clarify man's relationship to the universe, then biology must be accorded a central position . . .

  Jacques Monod

  Life, Believe, Men

  Jacques Monod (1972). “Chance and necessity: an essay on the natural philosophy of modern biology”, Vintage

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• There are a whole other range of sciences that must deal with the narrative reconstruction of the inordinately complex events of history that can occur but once in their detailed glory. And for those kinds of sciences, be it cosmology, or evolutionary biology, or geology, or palaeontology, the experimental methods, simplification, quantification, prediction and repetition of the experimental sciences don't always work. You have to go with the narrative, the descriptive methods of what? Of historians.

  Richard Lewontin

  Events, Narrative, Kind

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future. To understand biology is to understand that all life is linked to the earth from which it came; it is to understand that the stream of life, flowing out of the dim past into the uncertain future, is in reality a unified force, though composed of an infinite number and variety of separate lives.

  Rachel Carson

  Past, Reality, Numbers

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

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• There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.

  Francis Crick

  Science, Men, Views

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• In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred.

  Michael Behe

  Eye, Cells, Black

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• Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?

  Auguste Comte

  Philosophy, Men, Thinking

  "A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations". Book by Alan Lindsay Mackay, 1991.

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• Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Growing Up, Animal, Connections

  Elizabeth Janeway (1982). “Cross sections from a decade of change”, William Morrow & Co

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• The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology.

  John Maynard Smith

  Sex, Evolution, Problem

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• Progressively thinking biologists, both in our country and abroad, saw in Darwinism the only right road to the further development of scientific biology.

  Trofim Lysenko

  Country, Thinking, Development

  Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1948). “Soviet Biology: Report to the Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences”

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• Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.

  Paul Berg

  Technology, Ideas, Impact

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• After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967.

  Paul Nurse

  Weakness, Degrees, Interviews

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• Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century.

  Freeman Dyson

  Discovery, Firsts, Size

  Freeman Dyson (2015). “Dreams of Earth and Sky”, p.1, New York Review of Books

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• A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheism, Looks, Different

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• Every single cell in the human body replaces itself over a period of seven years. That means there's not even the smallest part of you now that was part of you seven years ago.

  Steven Hall

  Inspirational, Spring, Mean

  Steven Hall (2005). “The Raw Shark Texts”, p.25, Canongate Books

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• Ubiquity must never be mistaken for biology.

  Phil Zuckerman

  Ubiquity, Mistaken

  Phil Zuckerman (2010). “Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment”, p.56, NYU Press

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• It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

  Freeman Dyson

  Twenties, Firsts, Physics

  Freeman Dyson (2015). “Dreams of Earth and Sky”, p.1, New York Review of Books

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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

  Ashamed, Shows, Biologist

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• Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore a year older than me, I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of science and the scientific method.

  Frederick Sanger

  Respect, Brother, Years

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• Opera stars know that biology is destiny. Sometime in their 50s or early 60s, the powerful, flexible and ultimately mysterious instrument that has been the source of their artistry frays, cracks and disappears.

  Michael A. Walsh

  Stars, Powerful, Destiny

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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

  Honest, Theme, Surveys

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• So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.

  Warren Farrell

  Destiny, Men, Today

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• Usually that's going into biology in a certain way. There's certain strengths and weaknesses to both of the sexes. And I'm not against employing those nor am I against denying those, what I am looking for is a very large array of options.

  Mark Morris

  Sex, Weakness, Way

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• When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.

  Donald Johanson

  Years, Choices, Fossils

  "The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.

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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

  Animal, Bacteria, Genes

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