Biology Quotes - Page 6

• I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very quickly to biology.

  James Rothman

  Asking, Research, Courses

  "A Nobel Prize Winner on Why We Need Foundational Research" by Lisa Rosenbaum, www.newyorker.com. October 10, 2013.

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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

  Math, Logic, Greater

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• Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.

  Thomas Cochrane

  Moral Absolutism, Spheres, Physics

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• The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.

  Salvatore J. Cordileone

  Mother, Father, Reality

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• The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.

  Brian Eno

  Purpose, Noses, Surface

  Song: King's Lead Hat, 1977

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• The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.

  James D. Watson

  Believe, Religion, Atheism

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• The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.

  John Shelby Spong

  Religion, Atheism, Divinity

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• Thoughts are an important part of your inner wisdom and they are very powerful. A thought held long enough and repeated often enough becomes a belief. A belief then becomes your biology.

  Christiane Northrup

  Powerful, Healing, Health

  Christiane Northrup, M.D. (2017). “A Daily Dose of Women's Wisdom”, p.18, Hay House, Inc

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• I disagree with those who argue that evolutionary biology and the existence of God are incompatible.

  Elliott Sober

  Arguing, Existence, Disagree

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood... How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts - physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on - remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Writing, Wine, Glasses

  "The Feynman Lectures on Physics (volume I; lecture 3: "The Relation of Physics to Other Sciences")". Book by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands, 1964.

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• It is easy to make out three areas where scientists will be concentrating their efforts in the coming decades. One is in physics, where leading theorists are striving, with the help of experimentalists, to devise a single mathematical theory that embraces all the basic phenomena of matter and energy. The other two are in biology. Biologists-and the rest of us too-would like to know how the brain works and how a single cell, the fertilized egg cell, develops into an entire organism

  Dennis Flanagan

  Science, Cells, Eggs

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• Both in Britain and America, huge publicity has been given to stem cells, particularly embryonic stem cells, and the potential they offer. Of course, the study of stem cells is one of the most exciting areas in biology, but I think it is unlikely that embryonic stem cells are likely to be useful in healthcare for a long time.

  Robert Winston

  Thinking, Cells, Britain And America

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• The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an unproved theory -is it then a science or a faith? Belief in the theory of evolution is thus exactly parallel to belief in special creation - both are concepts which believers know to be true but neither, up to the present, has been capable of proof.

  L. Harrison Matthews

  Theory Of Evolution, Special, Peculiar

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• I tell my students, if you're interested in marine biology or llama farming, follow that string. Yes, it will probably take you a longer time to write that book, but it's not a race. That's another great thing about being a writer: you don't age out.

  Debra Dean

  Book, Writing, Marine

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Looking to biology to explain the low prevalence of eating disorders among men is like looking to genetics to explain why nonsmokers do not get lung cancer as often as smokers.

  Susan Bordo

  Cancer, Men, Anorexia

  Susan Bordo (2004). “Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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• We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.

  Alain de Botton

  Class, Envy, Feelings

  Twitter post from Jan 05, 2013

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• I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.

  Rebecca Skloot

  Cells, Class, Firsts

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• This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the way the brain works but in broader contexts in biology and even physics.

  George F. R. Ellis

  Top Down, Keys, Brain

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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

  Diversity, Tasks, Preservation

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• I think we need to start thinking about grounding our moral systems in our biology.

  Frans de Waal

  Thinking, Needs, Moral

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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

  Menopause, Enjoy, Tyranny

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• A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

  Truman Capote

  Art, Design, Magic

  Truman Capote (2013). “Portraits and Observations”, p.385, Modern Library

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• She’s just a little faint,” I reassured Mrs. Hammond. “They’re blood typing in biology.” She nodded, understanding now. “There’s always one.” I stifled a laugh. Trust Bella to be that one.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Blood, Laughing, Understanding

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• Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists founded chemistry by pursuing chimerical problems and theories which are false. In physical science, which is more advanced than biology, we might still cite men of science who make great discoveries by relying on false theories.

  Claude Bernard

  Mistake, Science, Men

  "An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine".

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• The big idea we start with is: "How is the genome interpreted, and how are stable decisions that affect gene expression inherited from one cell to the next?" This is one of the most competitive areas of molecular biology at the moment, and the students are reading papers that in some instances were published this past year. As a consequence, one of the most common answers I have to give to their questions is, "We just don't know."

  Shirley M. Tilghman

  Reading, Knowledge, Past

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