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Quotes About Biology

In 2004, results from a study that I worked on with colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco, linked chronic stress to shortening of telomeres.
~ Elizabeth Blackburn
As an undergraduate majoring in biology at the University of California, San Diego, I worked on infectious diseases at the nearby Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
~ Kathleen Rubins
My background is in biology. Before getting into the family business, I worked at the Predatory Bird Research Group at the University of California at Santa Cruz, fundraising for them.
~ Nell Newman
We have 100 genes or so, which we know we can't knock out without killing the cell, that are of unknown structure.
~ Craig Venter
You've got to remember that men are men and women are women. And although a lot of similarities, there are some real differences.
~ Helen Fisher
Centuries ago it may have been difficult for pregnant women and their children to get proper nourishment, probably leading to smaller - and therefore shorter-lived - adults.
~ Robert Fogel
Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different.
~ Beryl Bainbridge
Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
~ Margaret Mead
There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.
~ Jack Kingston
The first thing the male establishment wants to control is uterus and birth. You might call it womb envy. But even worse is the fact we are still using the male model of sexual response for women.
~ Betty Dodson
Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.
~ Hanna Rosin
When you fight, anger drives up testosterone in both men and women.
~ Helen Fisher
Women are affected by lunar tides only once a month; men have raging hormones every day.
~ Maureen Dowd
We're born man, woman and sexual beings.
~ Virginia E. Johnson
The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
If you get three women and a dog together and they all mate together they're not gonna have a baby
~ Gordon Klingenschmitt
Women apparently are quite drawn to men who have differences rather than similarities in their histocompatibility system. They pick it up by smell, and they can pick it up from kissing.
~ Helen Fisher
Scientists know that women gravitate to men who have a different immune system from theirs.
~ Helen Fisher
Women are naturally prone to compete over their mates.
~ Helen Fisher
Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
~ Honore de Balzac
Think of all the human suffering caused by the sad truth that beautiful sexy women or handsome Porsche-owning men often prove to have miserable genes for other traits
~ Jared Diamond
We were created to be woman and man and make kids.
~ Juan Pablo Galavis
Women are much more sensitive. We know that emotionally but their organs respond to the same degree.
~ Mehmet Oz
New research shows that men and women are born different. What must you think if that is shocking news to you? Men and women are born different.
~ Rush Limbaugh