Quotes About Biology

Life contains these things: leakage and wickage and discharge, pus and snot and slime and gleet. We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.

We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.

Hormones are nature's three bottles of beer.

The paper does not provide the exact number of penises eaten by ducks, but the author says there have been enough over the years to prompt the coining of a popular saying: 'I better get home or the ducks will have something to eat.

Como biólogo especializado precisamente en el estudio de la naturaleza frente a la nutrición, no puedo dejar de destacar hasta qué punto nuestros hábitos están condicionados por la interacción más temprana entre nuestros genes y el entorno de nuestra infancia y juventud.

I was a boy that age once, and I know that 97.7 percent of their bodies are semen and the 2.8 percent is an incendiary device for spraying it.

Bueno, la teoría de Darwin no deja de ser sólo una teoría —comenté—. Si, a estas alturas, hubieran podido demostrarla, sería la ley de Darwin.

The human body produces an estimated 2,709 enzymes that facilitate approximately 896 chemical reactions.

They are all killing themselves. Because this parasitic worm grows inside them, to become like a full-grown aquatic creature, and as it grows it takes over the brain function of the grasshopper, so the grasshopper thinks, "Hey, I really like water" and so they divebomb into water and die. And it's happening all the time. Google it. Google "grasshopper suicide".

Inflammation is—very generally speaking—the body's immune system's response to stimulus.

isoantigens—antigens within the same species.

Genes are biochemical recipes written in a four-letter alphabet called DNA.

people are attracted to people of high reproductive and genetic potential—the healthy, the fit, and the powerful.

how could authorities distinguish between a white person who was merely poor by circumstance and one who was biologically predisposed to poverty, crime, and low social standing?

Action and reaction generates the six tissue states.

Cells in the body form into tissues, of which there are four basic kinds: muscular, nervous, epithelial, and connective.

The object of biology is to grasp that which makes a living being a living being, that is, not--according to the realist postulate common to both mechanism and vitalism--the superposition of elementary reflexes or the intervention of a 'vital force,' but an indecomposable structure of behavior. It is by means of ordered reactions that we can understand the automatic reactions as degradations. Just as anatomy refers back to physiology, physiology refers back to biology.

In between the microscopic facts, global reality is delineated like a watermark, never graspable for objectivizing-particularizing thinking, never eliminate from or reducible to the microscopic: we had only a bit of protoplasmic jelly, and we then have an embryo, by a transformation which, always too early or too late, we were never witness to in our investment in a biological field.

There is an equipotentiality in tissue. A tissue gives the possible beyond its actual structure.

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.

All people, male or female, were helpless in the specifics of their own bodies.

Because the bad things you do become part of you, literally. This is no metaphor. They become part of you on a cellular level, in the blood.

Reproductive hormones and serotonin, stress hormones and neurotransmitters. The whole rickety biological pathophysiology of our women. The PMDD women, maybe all women. She sees the dangerous relays in the suffering body. She understands the mad pulses of the blood.

autoimmune diseases are one third genetic and two thirds environmental