Quotes About Biology

There was little in my early life to indicate that an interest in biology would become the passion of my academic career. In fact, there was little to suggest I would have an academic career.

We are more than the sum of our biochemical functions. Even the tiniest flea is an incredibly complex living creature, with mouth-parts adapted to feeding on the blood of your cat or dog.

What props up biological research, at least in the vaunted U.S. of A., involves a situation so deeply imbued with entitlement mentality that it has sunk into institutional corruption.

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator." —Louis Pasteur

Amoebas cannot sin because they reproduce by fission. They do not covet wives or murder each other.

To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. - Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

Scientists inform us that you build a new body every eleven months; so from a physical standpoint you are really only eleven months old.

I know that there are many essential biological differences between the sexes, of course. But not so many 'culturally-mandated' differences. In First World countries we've evolved beyond mere biology -it isn't the fate of the human female to be pregnant continously until she wears out and dies.

Darwin- I think the theory is: out of 'chaos' arises something that resembles 'design'. But it's all random.

his liver was enlarged and rode across the small of his back like a hard-rubbery leech

twenty-three chromosomes lie 3.2 billion ATCGs. All of this code equals one human genome, which you could print out in a very boring 6.4-million-page book. A strand of DNA is so thin (two molecules across) that if all of the chromosomes in a single cell were stretched

Before the end of the week, Fudge asked the big question. "How did the baby get inside you, Mommy?" So

I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning, just like the digital one was when I was his age.

That is, findings published in Pediatrics in 2017 concluded that "at 9 years of age, children with father loss have significantly shorter telomeres."1 Telomeres in our cells are what keep our genes from being deleted as our cells divide. As the National Academy of Sciences reports, "Telomere length in early life predicts lifespan."2

Biology is only the best hint as to what was functional in the past but not necessarily about what will be in the future. The most empowering question we can ask about the future is not "What is the future and how do we adapt?" but "How do we want our future to be and how do we adapt?

Honey, men are wimps. Why do you think it's women who have the babies?

Men are wimps . Why do you think women have the babies?

But don't men have breast and womb envy?

Sometimes the dendrites leading into the nonsensory neuron are so plentiful that, under a microscope, they look very much like a richly branched coral, or perhaps like a piece of finely tatted lace

Squiggly light bulbs and Priuses, whatever value they have, come out of the industrial mind. Ecological agriculture has the disciplines of ecology and evolutionary biology to call on, based on millions of years of emerging efficiencies such as those seen in nature's prairie ecosystems. The industrial sector has no such organizing discipline to call on.

I remember a woman, speaking at a ceremony when Anne was given an award for National Women's Health Week. She said, "women need to work in medical research, and in applied medicine, because too many men treat women's bodies like they are just men's bodies with female parts, but our bodies are fundamentally different and need to be treated that way.

O homem é a única espécie biológica que destruiu a sua própria função sexual natural e está doente em conseqüência disso.

Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.