Quotes About Biology

If you really want to study evolution, you've got go outside sometime, because you'll see symbiosis everywhere!

Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.

The actual course is called fishery studies, and you study general aquatics and fishery management.

I had gone to school to study marine biology.

Instead of studying what biology has already made, we have to imagine what biology could make. You can say, 'Oh, I want a cure for cancer,' but that doesn't tell you what evolutionary pathway will take you from here to there. What are the intermediate steps?

When I was at school studying biology, I wanted to be a medical researcher. I did work experience at St Mary's Hospital in London, and I begged them to let me see the post mortems. So the first time I saw a naked male was at 15, when I saw an 89 year old man who had died of a brain hemorrhage.

Much of my work in biology has been driven by my early training in chemistry. When studying a new chemical compound, the first and most important thing is to determine its detailed molecular structure.

Originally, I was in high school, and I was studying biology, and I got really interested in the field of medicine. And then, I got a lot of early exposure to it because my father's a physician, and I saw the relationship that he had with his patients, and it was something that drew my attention to how wonderful the field was.

Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.

I enjoyed biology in high school, and that brought me to a research lab at U.C. Santa Barbara. I loved doing experiments, and I had fun with them. I realized this kind of problem-solving fit my intellectual style.

Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.

Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences.

The concentration of the ferment iron in living substance is very small, being in the region of 1 g to 10 million g of cellular substance.

The entire substance of the spleen at an early period is almost entirely composed of nuclei and granular matter.

The nutritive substances used in greatest quantities by mammals are carbohydrates.

Average male pay is higher than average female pay for a simple reason. Despite decades of enforced equality, women still have babies, and men still don't. So women who wish to spend any substantial time at all with their own offspring will fall behind in their careers, and their earnings will be less.

That the primary effect of gene mutation may be as simple as the substitution of a single amino acid by another and may lead to profound secondary changes in protein structure and properties has recently been strongly indicated by the work of Ingram on hemoglobin.

There are also "good" viruses that help protect the body against 'bad" viruses, and virotherapies like RIGVIR can help bolster the former when the latter take over and cause problems.

Each cell of a living organism cooperates with the cell next to it. It does not need any sentiment or declarations of undying love to do so. Each cell is wise enough to know that if its neighbour goes, it also goes. The cells stick together not out of brotherhood, love and that kind of thing, but out of the urgent drive to survive.   It is the same with us, but only in a larger scale. Soon we will all come to know one simple thing: if I try to destroy you, I will also be destroyed.

We do not want to be seen as machines. Hence we tend to reject statements like the one by Karl Vogt, a 19th century German philosopher, who stated that "the brain produces thoughts as the liver produces bile, or the kidneys produce urine".

Jackson, I. (1987). On situating Piaget's subject: A triangulation based on Kant, structuralism, and biology. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 17, 471–486.

As a biologist, Piaget considered cognitive development to be part of a much more general tendency of living systems to grow, change, improve and maintain themselves.

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

A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times