Quotes About Biology

The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation.

Zoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating.

Nature is a tinkerer, not an inventor.

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.

The mechanisms of vis medicatrix naturæ—the most healing power of nature—are so effective that most diseases are self-terminating.

People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.

Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.

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.

Nature is that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer.

Of course you cannot free yourself from the laws of nature; but the laws of nervous systems are not the same as the physical laws.

Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

The goal of physiological research is functional nature.

Harmonising your biological rhythms with the rhythms of nature minimises entropy and reverses aging.

Teens are by nature, experimental learners. There is no real understanding of biology without the lab.

When the hoary old question of nature versus nurture comes around, sides form quickly.

Nature has got it all wrong: When you are younger, it should be harder to get pregnant, and as you get older it should be easier.

All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.

I'm very much an animal and nature person.

The distance between a gene and a behavior is of greatest interest to me. The relative contributions of nature and nurture, of nucleotide and nuclear family, are perpetually fascinating to me.

I have called this principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved by the term natural selection.

Life is not a miracle. It is a natural phenomenon, and can be expected to appear whenever there is a planet whose conditions duplicate those of the

Biology is run by intricate cellular mechanisms. Cellular mechanisms are run by Nature. Thus, the more we attempt to understand Nature, the more we get closer to our existential properties.

Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.