Quotes About Biology

Over hundreds of thousands of years, extraverts and introverts have not differed in their average reproductive output (although they might have differed at any one time or place in our evolutionary history). We can conclude that, while there are personality differences, there is no one "personality" that is inherently more adaptively successful than any other.

26. Plants do not actually sleep. Nor do they lie or even bluff. They do, however, expose their genitalia.

Ever since the field of biology emerged in the United States and Europe at the start of the nineteenth century, it has been bound up in debates over sexual, racial, and national politics. And as our social viewpoints have shifted, so has the science of the body.

High levels of female hormone seem to enhance coordination skills in women. From early on, girls are superior in tasks requiring rapid, skillful, fine movements as well as, of course, in everything requiring verbal fluency and articulation.

We have this thin layer of prefrontal cortex made just for us, sitting on top of this big animal brain. Getting this thin little layer to handle more is unrealistic." The prefrontal cortex doesn't control most of the decisions we make every day. We can't fundamentally get more out of that unique, thin layer of prefrontal cortex. "It's already overtaxed,

The Hour Between Dog and Wolf,

The idea that you would affect evolution is a very profound thing.

I fell in love with the elegance and precision of genetic analysis and experimentation to answer profound biological questions.

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

And the more profoundly the science of biology reveals the laws of the life and development of living bodies, the more effective is the science of agronomy.

No, I majored in biology, in a pre-med program.

I think that genetically we're programmed to battle each other.

It is an incontrovertible fact that if we want to make progress in basic areas of medicine and biology, we are going to have to use animals.

I am interested in how cells know what they are and how they should behave in their proper place in the body.

I believe that the power which the spleen possesses of regulating its amount of blood depends entirely upon mechanical properties.

Consciousness, for me, is a manifestation of complexity in biology. It's an emergent property.

The arteries are found in nearly every part of the animal body, with the exception of the hairs, nails, and epidermis; and the larger trunks usually occupy the most protected situations, running, in the limbs, along the flexor side, where they are less exposed to injury.

The food we eat goes beyond its macronutrients of carbohydrates, fat and protein. It's information. It interacts with and instructs our genome with every mouthful, changing genetic expression.

Until 1985, when my lab found the protein they are made of, aquaporins hadn't yet been identified. There had been a controversy in biology for more than 100 years about how water moved through cells.

No one knows the complete function of sleep. Is it to reset the brain or give it more of a rest period? Is it for cleaning the brain of all the garbage protein? For me, talking about these things as a non-biologist is fascinating.

One of the major lessons in all of biochemistry, cell biology and molecular medicine is that when proteins operate at the sub cellular level, they behave in a certain way as if they're mechanical machinery.

Proteins aren't designed, they're evolved.

In the late 1970s, when I was a professor at Caltech, I pioneered four instruments for analyzing genes and proteins that revolutionized modern biology - and one of these, the automated DNA sequencer, enabled the Human Genome Project.

Nuclear DNA encodes all the proteins and enzymes that make you you, basically.