Quotes About Biology

After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967.

I don't believe in a biological apocalypse, but I think there is stormy biological weather ahead as the human population continues to grow.

The biological world always seems poised to innovate.

Organisms don't think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.

Genes can't possibly explain all of what makes us what we are.

Biology always beats will power.

My roots, in college, were in behavior in the context of evolution.

I believe God controls the universe. I don't believe biology works in an uncontrolled fashion.

Our entire personality, our energy level, and how we cope is hormonal.

I think of what I do as copying nature's design process.

For many human beings, an interest in the past starts with themselves. That is, in part, a result of biology. Like other creatures, humans have a beginning and an ending, and in between lies their story.

Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.

Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That's all that ageing is.

This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely near together on the genetic map.

The real frontier is making these hybrid systems where you expand the capabilities of biology with chemistry.

Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired.

The thing I'm most interested in is the nervous system. How do brains grow? How do genes build complicated nervous systems?

I think we need to start thinking about grounding our moral systems in our biology.

The circulatory system of man and the vertebrate animals can be considered as made up of a small number of organs or subordinate systems, which are easy to recognize anatomically, and the functions of which are on the whole quite distinct.

I thought that biology and macro economies, especially, was fairly related between the systems level, and so I graduated the university with a degree in Genetic Engineering and Economies, and I moved to San Francisco to try out how to make money with just the ideas itself.

Particularly women need to pay attention to what is unique to their own personal biology and emotional systems, and not deny it.

I thought that tackling aging and the mechanisms that promote life would be worth figuring out. I wanted to learn why it is that some people are healthier than others and why some people live to 110 and others only to 60 or 70.

The Ferrari is exactly the same in the human context as the peacock's tail is on the peacock.

Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly.