Quotes About Biology

Computer science is to biology what calculus is to physics. It's the natural mathematical technique that best maps the character of the subject.

Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.

Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.

Man's Place in Nature.

A cell is regarded as the true biological atom.

Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.

In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.

DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.

the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine

There is absolutely no scientific basis or evidence for 'intelligent design.' It is simply a religious assertion, and it has no place in a science course.

About weak points [of the Origin] I agree. The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder, but when I think of the fine known gradations, my reason tells me I ought to conquer the cold shudder.

Scientists need to invent a way to make DNA work like in cartoons.

Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary conditions.

The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest) to attain her needs by the easiest means.

In science, if the last 50 years were the age of physics, the next 50 years will be the age of biology.

The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm.

The self is the resultant of the interest of the genes.

The races are in fact disappearing, although the process will require thousands of years at present rates

There is no counting the unsolved problems of Natural History.

As we delight in the strange and exotic beauty of orchid flowers, it is salutary to reflect that we are, in essence, looking at their genitalia.