Quotes About Biology

The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.

no known natural weapons

Men act as if we just crawled from the swamp, our webbed feet dripping brackish water as we waddle ashore, seeking to mate with a female or, lacking that, a warm patch of mud.

Does peeing adversely affect makeup?

Childbirth is normal until proven otherwise.

Women's bodies have a near perfect knowledge of childbirth; it's when their brains get involved that things can go wrong.

I don't think biology is replacing the feeling experienced through art. Biology is capable of giving additional insights. It's a parallel, not a substitutive process.

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.

In neuroscience, our textbook showed how the brain scans of people newly in love look a lot like the brain scans of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. In each case, your dopamine is suppressing your serotonin.

Some scientists hypothesize that having children is the only reason romantic love came about. It kept couples together long enough to mate and see a baby through infancy.

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from someone else's plate.

only thing your DNA thinks about is reproducing itself.

Every single human cell contains DNA, which is a special molecule that your body leaves behind at crime scenes so the police can identify you.

Of course most of us find it difficult to talk about insects without bringing up the subject of sex.

I was clinging to this tree so passionately that I might very well have committed an act of photosynthesis with it.

To begin with, sponges are not plants. They are multi-celled animals, although they have no mouths, internal organs, brains or nervous systems. They cannot move, but they can reproduce, eat, grow and obtain Florida driver's licenses.

Our penises flop up and down, and then as we pick up speed, slap left to right, back and forth -- who would have thought left to right? The pain! People should not do this. Penises were not built for running.

There's a chromosome that goes haywire when you turn thirteen. It commands you to live in filth

Humans carried guns. And killed with malice, the only species that did.

Alan Turing appears to be becoming a symbol of the shift towards computing, not least because of his attitude of open-minded defiance of convention and conventional thinking. Not only did he conceptualise the modern computer – imagining a simple machine that could use different programmes – but he put his thinking into practice in the great code breaking struggle with the Nazis in World War II, and followed it up with pioneering early work in the mathematics of biology and chaos.

If only I were equipped with better organs! Weren't we supposed to be getting deep bio-upgrades by the time I hit fifty? Why is the future always Ã¢â'¬Â¦ in the future?

Might human sapience be a fluke? Evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr said—"Nothing demonstrates the improbability of high intelligence better than the fifty billion earthly species that failed to achieve it.

Trouble is synonymous with being a metabolizing entity.