Biology Quotes - Page 4

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

  Semir Zeki

  Fighting, Morality, Ends

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• To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g. biology) to evaluate certain technical matters.

  Serge Lang

  Responsibility, Doe, Needs

  Serge Lang (2012). “Challenges”, p.243, Springer Science & Business Media

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• So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Military, School, Texas

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• It was Darwin's chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a process by which contingencies a priori improbable, are given, in the process of time, an increasing probability, until it is their non-occurrence rather than their occurrence which becomes highly improbable.

  Ronald Fisher

  Science, Light, Evolution

  "Evolution as a Process". Book edited by J. S. Huxley, A. C. Hardy and E. B. Ford, 1954.

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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

  Order, Psychics, Crime

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.107, Vintage

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• The fact that the mind rules the body is, in spite of its neglect by biology and medicine, the most fundamental fact which we know about the process of life.

  Franz Alexander

  Medicine, Mind, Fundamentals

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• We all know interspecies romance is weird.

  Tim Burton

  Romance, Weirdness, Genetics

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• Life contains these things: leakage and wickage and discharge, pus and snot and slime and gleet. We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.

  Mary Roach

  Slime, Birth, Forget

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• Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole.

  Terence McKenna

  Sympathy, Black, Events

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• So what we can answer [as geneticists] is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically we have to contextualize it - the archaeology, the linguistic pattern, even the climatology.

  Spencer Wells

  Answers, Patterns, Ancestry

  "Finding the roots of modern humans" by Marsha Walton, www.cnn.com. April 14, 2005.

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• The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm.

  Peter Agre

  Cells, Enthusiasm, Energy

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• By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.

  Paul Berg

  Transition, Molecular Biology, Becoming

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

  Daniel Kahneman

  Mind, Culture, Combination

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• Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.

  Francis Crick

  Children, Christian Education, Religion

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• Your body, which is very physical, is under the influence of your thoughts, your feelings, your emotions, your dreams, your fantasies, your desires, your instincts, your drives, your imagination. All these things orchestrate themselves - all these internal activities that are in the invisible domain that we call consciousness actually have very precise physical effects both in our biology, but they also influence our perception of the world.

  Deepak Chopra

  Dream, Imagination, Feelings

  Source: bigthink.com

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

  Sam Cooke

  Knows

  "Wonderful World" (song) (1960)

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• If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?

  Auguste Comte

  Thinking, Moral, Chemistry

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• We do have tendency, now in biology especially to make up stories, to make theoretical biology a kind of game, in fact we have game theory in biology which is meant to use the theory of games to make predictions or explain things.

  Richard Lewontin

  Games, Stories, Use

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Degrees

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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

  Firsts, Form, Changed

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• Industrial opportunities are going to stem more from the biological sciences than from chemistry and physics. I see biology as being the greatest area of scientific breakthroughs in the next generation.

  George Brown, Jr.

  Opportunity, Generations, Next

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• I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have to be pulled into a corner to be taught about.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Trying, Taught, Chemistry

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• Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back. And it’s fine if you as an adult want to run around pretending or claiming that you don’t believe in evolution, but if we educate a generation of people who don’t believe in science, that’s a recipe for disaster. We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.

  Bill Nye

  Running, Believe, Keys

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• I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under the constraints imposed by our biology and history. When an author is free to suspend the constraints, it's tennis without a net.

  Steven Pinker

  People, Tennis, Fans

  "Dangerous minds, lethal machines" by Steven Pinker, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2004.

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• When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.

  Jean Genet

  Men, Opposites, Names

  Jean Genet, Edmund White (1993). “The selected writings of Jean Genet”, Ecco Pr

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