Quotes About Biology

We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.

I did this book 'Harvest for Hope,' and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is that we have the guts not of a carnivore, but of an herbivore. Herbivore guts are very long because they have to get the last bit of nutrition out of leaves and things.

But what is the love life of newts, if you boil it right down? Didn't you tell me once that they just waggled their tails at one another in the mating season?' 'Quite correct.' I shrugged my shoulders. 'Well all right, if they like it. But it's not my idea of molten passion.

Do you appreciate that an oyster has, among its other organs, a heart?

The elephant, tortoise, snake and other animals noted for their longevity have a respiratory rate which is less than man's. The tortoise, for instance, who may attain the age of 300 years,167  breathes only 4 times per minute.

Your brain is the "greediest" organ in the body; the resting brain uses oxygen and glucose at 10 times the rate of the rest of the body. Thus, even though the brain makes up less than 2.5 percent of total body weight, it is responsible for 20 percent of the body's energy consumption.

shortly after that, their brains began to grow! The human

Cancer is nothing more than a healthy cell that starts replicating out of control.

The human body is amazing, she said. If you deprive it of one sensory input, the other senses take over, almost instantly.

Human beings are evolving into something different," he declared. "We are becoming a hybrid species—a fusion of biology and technology.

Darwin's theory described the survival of the fittest, but not the arrival of the fittest.

I believe life not only obeys the laws of physics, but that life began because of those laws.

How about Panspermia?" Winston asked. "The notion that life on earth was seeded from another planet by a meteor or cosmic dust? Panspermia is considered a scientifically valid possibility to explain the existence of life on earth.

have you ever seen an actual human brain? It's built in two parts—an outer part called the dura mater and an inner part called the pia mater. These two parts are separated by the arachnoid—a veil of weblike tissue." Langdon cocked his head in surprise. Gently, she reached up and touched Langdon's temple. "There's a reason they call this your temple, Robert.

We evolved from apes and we're going extinct.

the human brain is a binary system—synapses either fire or they don't—they are on or off, like a computer switch. The brain has over a hundred trillion switches, which means that building a brain is not so much a question of technology as it is a question of scale.

I reject monogamy as an affront to evolution.

La panspermia es una teoría según la cual la vida comenzó en la Tierra gracias a la llegada de semillas de otro planeta.

between chimpanzee and Homo sapiens.

obligate endosymbiosis

spontaneous generation

without a doubt, that we evolved from apes.

The primordial soup.

Watson was probably now considered a primitive, single-celled bacterium on the evolutionary scale of synthetic intelligence.