Quotes About Biology

There is no need to upset about the fact that our ancestors were monkeys, because they are capable chaps! Don't be sad about the truth, just understand the truth!

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

Maybe the best we can hope for is that those we leave behind find comfort in knowing, that we're born out of love, and not science. That biology explains the how, but love explains the why

Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.

Organic chemistry is the study of organs; inorganic chemistry is the study of the insides of organs.

Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.

Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took.

What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living plant is situated.

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.

Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.

To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree

But biology and computer science - life and computation - are related. I am confident that at their interface great discoveries await those who seek them.

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad.

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.

Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces if not the stigmata of its ancestry.

Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences.

We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

It is remarkable that the elements diffused through the host of stars are some of those most closely connected with the living organisms of our globe.