Quotes About Biology

Men, embryonically speaking, are imperfect women, as you know.

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

Instead of getting periods once a month, can girls just get a text from mother nature saying 'You're not pregnant have a nice day!'

To understand how growth, aging and death works, you must understand the radiation environment.

Biology includes the study of the human death which began when you took your first breath

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental impact statement, as most biologists in business do right now.

Advocates for a single line of progress encounter their greatest stumbling block when they try to find a smooth link between the apparently disparate designs of the invertebrates and vertebrates.

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.

Just as the design of our bodies can be understood only in terms of natural selection, so the design of our minds can be understood only in terms of memetic selection.

The feature of living matter that most demands explanation is that it is almost unimaginably complicated in directions that convey a powerful illusion of deliberate design.

So, if anatomy is destiny then testosterone is doom.

I am a student of evolution and adaptation.

We're not the best, but we happen to be what evolution came up with.

The study of evolution is an evolution in itself.

Whatever the life form, evolution selects for economy of resources.

I would argue that we're not limited by actual DNA. You can re-create the ancient DNA by looking at the genomes of existing animals.

No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.

Although Mengele's subjects could be operated on without any painkillers at all, a remarkable example of Nazi zoophilia is that a leading biologist was once punished for not giving worms enough anesthesia during an experiment.

If organs as elemental as brain and heart can be persuaded to regenerate, and others, like ears and corneas, can be fashioned from living ink, how will that change us as a species? Will the printing of organs affect our evolution? Could it alter our genes?

a remarkable example of Nazi zoophilia is that a leading biologist was once punished for not giving worms enough anesthesia during an experiment.

Smell was our first sense, and it was so successful that in time the small lump of olfactory tissue atop the nerve cord grew into a brain. Our cerebral hemispheres were originally buds from our olfactory stalks. We think because we smelled.

There's no scientific basis for it." He'd go on about climate and exposure to sunlight and the beginning of agriculture and diet and all sorts of factors, but she was fascinated at the concept that so-called white people were simply descended from people whose environment left them with a need to absorb more vitamin D from the sun.