Quotes About Biology

The human race could not go on without reproduction, and marriage creates the most secure environment in which to raise children.

There's a real lack of basic understanding of the female body and the reproductive system.

I never imagined that I'd end up in animation, but marine biology and art collided, and here we are!

We discovered that fruit flies alter course in less than one one-hundredth of a second, 50 times faster than we blink our eyes, which is faster than we ever imagined.

Absorbing a healthy amount of dirt builds your immune system.

If we think of the immune system as a machine, then we are far from even knowing all of its parts.

We found out that, contrary to what many people thought, in the immune system, genes can change during the life cycle of the individual.

Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural.

The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened.

I majored in economics in college. Certain things were just out, like chemistry or biology, or science or math, that was just out of the question. That's just an aptitude impossibility, I couldn't have done it.

One characteristic aspect of ageing is the increased susceptibility to disease, particularly age-related diseases such as cardiovascular diseases and cancer.

Chez les fourmis, l'éjaculation tue le mâle. Chez d'autres espèces c'est la femelle, qui, une fois comblée, massacre son bienfaiteur. Tout bonnement parce que les émotions lui ont ouvert l'appétit. Il faut se rendre à l'évidence : l'univers des insectes est globalement un univers de femelles, plus précisément de veuves. Les mâles n'y ont qu'une place épisodique...

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to philosophers to be obviously progress -- though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

mealworms I enjoy.

There are all sorts of people who will tell you that worms do not mind being cut in half at all because both halves go on living - that the worms laugh it off with an airy shrug of the shoulders, exclaiming 'Oh look! This funny man has cut me in half! How amusing! Now I can go away for a weekend with myself!

Spiders are not insects, but in a war they will side with the insects.

This is one of the reasons I get such joy from studying evolution. This kind of science is amazing and sexy.

Altruism is not a moral or religious ideal, no matter what some people might tell you. It is essential, biological part of who or what we are as a species.

Configuring necks this way is almost certainly not how a designer or engineer would build the world. But the details all make perfect sense once you embrace the idea that evolution does not work the way a human designer or engineer would.

Our intellect, our awareness, and our consciousness is the most powerful form of life on this planet. It's totally worthwhile. If our animal instincts stopped, we would die. We don't think about it, but if your consciousness were responsible for all of your bodily functions, you would die.

Where there's water on Earth, you find life as we know it. So if you find water somewhere else, it becomes a remarkable draw to look closer to see if life of any kind is there, even if it's bacterial, which would be extraordinary for the field of biology.

Saliva has antibacterial properties. It also has things called nerve growth factor, skin growth factor, histatins which help with wound closure. So when you see an animal licking a wound or even a mom kissing a child's boo-boo, there's some, there's some good science behind why one might do this.

The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life.

I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.