Quotes About Biology

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.

I have great confidence in human curiosity - even though I don't know what curiosity is from a biological point of view. One of its characteristics has got to be the willingness to explore.

But if you get chronically, psychosocially stressed, you're going to compromise your health. So, essentially, we've evolved to be smart enough to make ourselves sick.

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.

Don't know much about history Don't know much biology.

Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools.

The use of thermodynamics in biology has a long history rich in confusion.

No doctor has ever healed anyone of anything in the history of the world. The human immune system heals and that's the only thing that heals.

The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.

Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows perforce.

Our bodies are home to trillions of microbes, and these creatures define who we are.

There's a lot of interest from the medical community on how things develop in microgravity, and the hope, later, that is expected to apply to what the changes are in humans as well.

Biology, it's the technology which builds our world, and we can harness it to shift humanity from a scarcity to an abundance economy.

If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?

After eating, do amphibians need to wait an hour before getting out of the water?

God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.

Thank God for Darwin, eh?

Do fish get cramps after eating?

Another werewolf thing. Like most animals, we spent a large part of our lives engaged in the three Fs of basic survival. Feeding, fighting and... reproduction.

That's an interesting philosophical question. When your boner goes away, is that one gone... forever?

You know, quite a few species of fish require two or more sexual partners.

If men were necessary in the procreation process, they'd have gone the way of the dodo bird long ago.

There is not a simple gene pool entirely free of toxic waste.