Quotes About Biology

What's the matter with you guys? The sight of blonde hair knocks you three rungs down on the evolutionary ladder.

A pessimist's blood type is always B-negative.

Why periods? Why can't Mother Nature just send a text message: "What'z up, Girl? You ain't pregnant. Have a great week! Talk next month."

I would like it if men had to partake in the same hormonal cycles to which we're subjected monthly. Maybe that's why men declare war — because they have a need to bleed on a regular basis.

Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.

Virtually every process is best carried out at one time or other of the year and that is not something to take lightly... There is much more to seasonality, though, than breeding or migration. Virtually every internal process alters... We humans were clearly highly seasonal beasts until the coming of electric light but traces remain.

The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the "Four F's": fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating.

Men wake up aroused in the morning. We can't help it. We just wake up and we want you. And the women are thinking, "How can he want me the way I look in the morning?" It's because we can't see you. We have no blood anywhere near our optic nerve.

Love is a matter of chemistry, sex is a matter of physics.

It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three to frown.

The atheist says we live in a random universe, he has no right to rely on inductive inference, he has no reason to expect causality, or simply the uniformity of nature. He has no basis for believing in the uniformity of nature, but if he has no basis for the uniformity of nature he has no basis for doing science, it's gone, kaput. Biology, chemistry, astronomy, psychology, history, grammar, all of it is gone, there are no sciences without inductive inference

Women give birth, men take life. Therefore, men are jealous of this power. War is menstruation envy.

Tony smiled broadly as he pushed past Jade and walked into the entranceway. "There's these two sperm swimming. And they're exhausted. They've been at it forever, seems like hours. Finally, one turns to the other and says, 'Hey! How much longer we got?' Other sperm looks back at him and says. 'Who you kidding? We just got past the esophagus!' " His laughter started as soon as he finished the joke.

WTFact: The human small intestine can reach up to eight meters in length. Why do you want to know that? Because all knowledge is important, f*ck-face.

Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while

For example, the call for equal rights has perverted into "let's all be the same." Male and female biological differences are discounted, because "male" and "female" are considered "outdated social constructs," and while that is partially true, the social construct stance becomes clear reductionism when it totally discounts clear differences in male and female biology (i.e., androgyny is not the same as equality).

God is an energy, rather than an anthropomorphic being, and God's language is biology. Red blood cells, the principle of magnetic attraction, neurological synapse: each is a miracle, and in each is the presence and flow of God.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

Mathematical Ideas in Biology

An animal's ability to absorb oxygen is roughly proportional to the surface area of its lungs. Typical human lungs pack in a surface bigger than a tennis court. As an added complication, the labyrinth of windpipes must merge efficiently with the arteries and veins.

Typical human lungs pack in a surface bigger than a tennis court.

Wilhelm Johannsen, self-consciously invented the word gene.

Samuel Butler had said a century earlier—and did not claim to be the first—that a hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. Butler was quite serious, in his way:

biology has become an information science