Biology famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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We can truly see that consciousness is operating creatively even in biology, even in the evolution of species.
-- Amit Goswami -
Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.
-- Andrew Bird -
As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones.
-- Bruce Chatwin -
Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.
-- C. J. Cherryh -
Biology can be said to define possibilities but not determine them; it is never irrelevant but it is also not determinant.
-- Cordelia Fine -
I loved the idea that biology was logical.
-- Cynthia Kenyon -
I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
-- Dan Gable -
Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.
-- Daniel Kahneman -
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 -
Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.
-- David Eagleman -
One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.
-- Elizabeth Moon -
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 -
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 -
Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.
-- Erwin Chargaff -
Evolution makes biology make sense. And if you don't teach your students the evolutionary core of biology, you're making it harder for them.
-- Eugenie Scott -
There are no monotone "values" in biology.
-- Gregory Bateson -
in terms of the biology of the planet, development is a euphemism for destruction.
-- Helen Caldicott -
There's biology in everything, even when you're feeling spiritual.
-- Helen Fisher -
Eugene Wigner wrote a famous essay on the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences. He meant physics, of course. There is only one thing which is more unreasonable than the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in physics, and this is the unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics in biology.
-- Israel Gelfand -
Most likely, logic is capable of justifying mathematics to no greater extent than biology is capable of justifying life.
-- IU?. I. Manin -
I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.
-- Jack Horner -
Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.
-- Jared Diamond -
The supersession of dualism in biology begins to occur in this science at the moment when the ‘time’ factor is taken into consideration.
-- Jean Gebser -
Paradoxically, it has turned out that game theory is more readily applied to biology than to the field of economic behavior for which it was originally designed
-- John Maynard Smith -
I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology.
-- John Pople -
Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.
-- Leon Kass -
But biology and computer science - life and computation - are related. I am confident that at their interface great discoveries await those who seek them.
-- Leonard Adleman -
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 -
It's bad biology to rob nonhuman animals of their emotional lives.
-- Marc Bekoff -
Ubiquity must never be mistaken for biology.
-- Phil Zuckerman -
Geology differs from physics, chemistry, and biology in that the possibilities for experiment are limited.
-- Reinout Willem van Bemmelen -
You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose - and that means evolution.
-- Richard Dawkins -
I don't believe biology works in an uncontrolled fashion.
-- Richard Mourdock -
Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.
-- Robert Lanza -
Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took.
-- Sam Cooke -
Don't know much about history Don't know much biology.
-- Sam Cooke -
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end.
-- Semir Zeki -
If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology.
-- Shlomo Sand -
I've always liked all the sciences like math, physics and biology
-- Sigrid Agren -
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 -
Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.
-- Walter Gilbert -
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 -
Philosophers of biology generally recognize that evolutionary fitness (roughly, an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment) is multiply realizable.
-- Elliott Sober -
"Tiger is a natural kind" and "Tiger is a historical particular" are incompatible with each other, and evolutionary biology provides a reason for favoring the latter over the former.
-- Elliott Sober -
I don't endorse deism or interventionist theism. My point is just that evolutionary biology is logically compatible with the former and with some versions of the latter.
-- Elliott Sober -
I disagree with those who argue that evolutionary biology and the existence of God are incompatible.
-- Elliott Sober -
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 -
I don't agree with a core statement by most feminists, the statement by Simone de Beauvoir: "One is not born a woman, one becomes one." Even as a schoolgirl I wasn't convinced by the claim that gender has nothing to do with biology and is only shaped by one's environment.
-- Kristina Schroder -
You can't teach biology with a bottle containing dead animals and organisms.
-- Roman Vishniac -
If the students don't want to learn about evolution, they shouldn't be in the course. A biology course that teaches creationism is not a science course, it's a religion course. So the students demanding that creationism be given credence in that course are out of line and are denying the academic freedom of the professor. They are calling into question the scientific basis of the material that's being presented. And students are not in a position to do that.
-- Joan Wallach Scott -
The major thing is to view biology as an information science.
-- Leroy Hood
