Quotes About Biology

The brain can be seen as a complex machine, like a gooey computer.

Computer viruses are alive.

This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

What after all does it consist of? You put your dick some place and moved it back and forth and stuff came out the front.

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future. To understand biology is to understand that all life is linked to the earth from which it came; it is to understand that the stream of life, flowing out of the dim past into the uncertain future, is in reality a unified force, though composed of an infinite number and variety of separate lives.

Fish, amphibian, and reptile, warm-blooded bird and mammal-each of us carries in our veins a salty stream in which the elements sodium, potassium, and calcium are combined in almost the same proportions as in sea water.

In the fish world many things are told by sound waves.

They should not be called 'insecticides', but 'biocides'.

From a ball of mud taken from a birds plumage, Charles Darwin raised 82 separate plants, belonging to five distinct species!

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.

I]t is simply impossible to predict the effects of lifetime exposure to chemical and physical agents that are not part of the biological experience of man.

I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale—why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of a lobster?

Every human cell, with its thousands of protein chains, is more complex than a 747 or the largest cruise ship, in fact more complex than the two combined. All life on Earth, in its extravagant variety, offers itself for study, but though we probe to ever deeper layers of its structure, the meaning eludes us.

transhumanism

He no longer has any doubt that he will pass along what the billions—trillions!—of archaea have installed within him.

abiogenesis

They were conducting an experiment to learn to what extent sound has an effect, positive or negative, on algae.

Men have a hard time just dealing with a simple cold. If God had left procreation up to the male of the species, humanity would've died out with Adam.

At Stone's direction, Harry removed ovaries, blinded the female rats, and removed their olfactory bulbs. Sightless, hormone-deprived—it didn't matter. The mother rats crawled determinedly toward the baby rats. They were slower, maybe, but the homing instinct was magnetic, needle to the north.

Your experiences today will influence the molecular composition of your body for the next two to three months," he tells his audience, "or, perhaps, for the rest of your life. Plan your day accordingly.

Biology is not destiny; you can be the child of an evil person and be a good person

Testosterone poisoning

Post coitum omne animalium triste est