Quotes About Biology

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science.

Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.

So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.

The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.

I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.

We are not compelled to believe in biological uniformity in order to affirm freedom and dignity

No hay en todo el Universo chapuza más grande ni trasto peor hecho que el cuerpo humano. Sólo las orejas, pegadas al cráneo de cualquier modo, ya bastarían para descalificarlo. Los pies son ridículos; las tripas, asquerosas. Todas las calaveras tienen una cara de risa que no viene a cuento. De todo ello los seres humanos sólo son culpables hasta cierto punto. La verdad es que tuvieron mala suerte con la evolución.

In any nation but the USA, it is taken for granted that a man of distinction, ability, wealth or power will keep a mistress and a few girlfriends on the side. Only in America, still suffering from its grotesque, hypocritical Puritan heritage, do we persist in attempting to deny and repeal a million years of basic primate biology.

The ladybug's a beetle. It's shaped like a pea. Its color is a bright red With lots of spots to see. Although the name is ladybug Some ladybugs are men. So why don't we say "gentleman bug" Every now and then?

A pessimist's blood type is always B-negative.

Lymph, v.: to walk with a lisp.

This [double helix] structure has novel features which are of considerable biological interest…. It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.

Don't know much about historyDon't know much biologyDon't know much about a science bookDon't know much about the French I took

What's the matter with you guys? The sight of blonde hair knocks you three rungs down on the evolutionary ladder.

A biophysicist talks physics to the biologists and biology to the physicists, but then he meets another biophysicist, they just discuss women.

Post coitum omne animal triste [Every creature is sad after coitus].

stress, which impairs memory, reduces neurogenesis.

Les organismes sont continuellement en train de changer, passant par une série "d'états": chacun de ces derniers correspond une configuration dans laquelle les diverses composantes de l'organisme présentent un niveau d'activité donnée.

A child is too old to breast-feed when he can unhook mommy's bra with one hand.

When lightning strikes at sea, why don't all the fish die?

There are ninety-six thousand kilometers of blood vessels in the human body, children! Almost enough to wind around the earth two and a half times . . .

Nearly every species that has ever lived has gone extinct, Laurette. No reason to think we humans will be any different!" Dr. Geffard pronounces