Quotes About Biology

Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.

It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend.

In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely.

Most of our brain cells are glial cells, once thought to be mere support cells, but now understood as having a critical role in brain function. Glial cells in the human brain are markedly different from glial cells in other brains, suggesting that they may be important in the evolution of brain function.

A marine ecologist is a scientist who studies the many species that live underwater and how they interact with each other and with humans.

If stem cells divide equally, so both daughter cells look more or less the same, each one becomes another stem cell. If the split is unequal, neurons form prematurely.

We have to pay close attention to what we see, and be ready to work with the unexpected according to the basic principles of systems biology and medicine.

The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority.

Religious faith as a whole induces various health benefits in the general population through complex biological processes.

Biology without selfishness, is nothing but fiction.

We are the only species of mammal that doubts our ability to give birth. It's profitable to scare women about birth. But let's stop it. I tell women: Your body is not a lemon.

Women have babies and men provide the support. If you don't like the way we're made you've got to take it up with God.

Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world.

You know who must be very secure in their masculinity? Male ladybugs.

Consider a very natural process, menstruation, and how the association has been created in which this process is dirty, degrading.

The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.

Men are superior to women. For one thing, men can urinate from a speeding car.

Both depression and anxiety disorders, for example, are repeatedly described in the media as 'chemical imbalances in the brain,' as if spontaneous neural events with no relation to anything outside a person's brain cause depression and anxiety.

Life cannot arise spontaneously but comes only from preexisting life.

We're the only species who hunts for sport.

Nature - how, we don't know - has technology that works in every living cell and that depends on every atom being precisely in the right spot. Enzymes are precise down to the last atom. They're molecules. You put the last atom in, and it's done. Nature does things with molecular perfection.

Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.

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.

Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.