Quotes About Biology

There's no evolutionary advantage to long life.

For the time being the 'gay gene' remains elusive. Which is not to say that it won't be found at some point.

biology throws up certain complex and often cruel challenges.

It is a stimulating scientific riposte to the people claiming that biological differences between the sexes do not exist. As Pinker said, 'Things are not looking good for the theory that boys and girls are born identical except for their genitalia, with all other differences coming from the way society treats them.'2 Except that less than two decades later they are. The facts are certainly on Pinker's side, but the noisier voices are not.

Los hechos, sin duda, le dan la razón a Pinker, pero las voces más ruidosas no. El resultado es que, desde que Pinker escribió La tabla rasa, nuestras sociedades se han enrocado en la ilusión de que las diferencias biológicas —incluidas las diferencias de aptitud— pueden evitarse, negarse o soslayarse. Algo similar ha ocurrido con las diferencias sociales.

The most successful of biology's creatures coexist in mutually beneficial ecosystems.

If there is no God, and if Christ did not come back from the dead, then the bipedal carbon unit that doesn't believe in Jesus is nothing more than 200 pounds of protoplasm with an average temperature of 98.6, and endowed by blind evolutionary processes with nothing in particular to speak of.

The anatomical juxtaposition of 2 orbicularis oris muscles in a state of contraction.

Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds.

Men's brains may be bigger, but women's contain more brain cells. Also, male and female brains work differently. When men and women perform identical tasks, different areas of their brains light up in response. In addition, females use both hemispheres, while male brain activity is restricted to one side. (21)

Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.

Now, evolution is the substance of fossils hoped for, the evidence of links not seen.

Biology doesn't really have universal laws either, and yet biologists still manage to make progress.

To insist, even with Olympian assurance, that life appeared quite by chance and evolved in this fashion, is an unfounded supposition which I believe to be wrong and not in accordance with the facts.

I don't think we are here for anything. We're just products of evolution. You can say, "Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don't think there's a purpose." But I'm anticipating a good lunch.

No amount of study of present forms [of life] would permit us to infer [the existence of] dinosaurs

The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every other branch of the life sciences.

But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.

Life solves its problems with well-adapted designs, life-friendly chemistry and smart material and energy use.

Your sexual attributes are simply chemistry and setups within your DNA. They are given by agreement as gifts for you to experience in this life.

Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.

The gene as the basis of life.

Chances are, when we meet intelligent life forms in outer space they're going to be descended from predators.

When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.