Quotes About Biology

Emotionally men and women are different, but only as a result of the physical differences. It all comes back to our bodies.

When I was at Stanford, I was actually in the cancer biology program, but I mostly focused on infectious disease.

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.

It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it is in any animal merely statistical - not deterministic.

There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.

I was working with stem cells as part of a NASA programme. We realised that the science of stem-cell proliferation was also fundamental to cancer cells when cancer enters the phase of metastasis.

The most dangerous cancer cells are actually the ones that are more like stem cells, which have this ability to produce themselves over and over again. More and more cancer biologists say stem-cell-like cells in cancers are the most dangerous.

Continuing advances in stem cell medicine will change all of our lives for the better.

I think it's amazing - I think stem cell is the future, there's no doubt in my mind.

Without a doubt, stem cell research will lead to the dramatic improvement in the human condition and will benefit millions of people.

I am all for stem cell research.

The first misconception is that embryonic stem cell research is not legal. The fact is, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal. Research on embryonic stem cells has taken place for years.

I support stem cell research, including embryonic stem cell research.

What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?

We are gene-copying bio-robots, living out here on a lonely planet in a cold and empty physical universe.

Is there really anything behind our smiles and tears but an evolutionary slip-up?

It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection.

If men had to have babies there wouldn't be any sex life left.

In a similar vein, John Videler (2006) of Leiden University suggested the "Jesus Christ dinosaur" model of flight origins, whereby protobirds may have gained advantages for both escape and foraging by running over the surface of water rather than land.

Stats are stats but if you want to be sure you're going to have, say, three children with no problems, you should start at around 23.

All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.

Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.

About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.