Quotes About Biology

Humans have continued to evolve quite a lot over the past ten thousand years, and certainly over 100 thousand. Sure, our biology affects our behavior. But it's unlikely that humans' early evolution is deeply relevant to contemporary psychological questions about dating or the willpower to complete a dissertation.

Only flies have true halteres. In fact, the scientific term for flies, 'diptera,' means 'two wings.' Most insects, including bees, have two pairs of wings for a total of four. In flies, the hindwing pairs have been transformed through evolution into the halteres.

I knew the ribosome was going to be the focus of Nobel prizes. It stands at the crossroads of biology, between the gene and what comes out of the gene. But I had convinced myself I was not going to be a winner.

In courtship, who wins and who loses will determine who passes on their DNA to tomorrow.

My degree is in biology, and it will always be my first love. Evolution, ecology, genetics - they were the textbooks I was devouring as a teenager, and it was there that my love of science grew.

I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes.

The problem with existing biology is you change only one or two genes at a time.

The problem with Ebola is that it makes mistakes while it copies itself. The mistakes are actually good for Ebola because they help Ebola change, and as a result of this, as it jumps from one human body to the next, roughly half the time, it's got a mutation.

We've discovered the secret of life.

The systems approach to biology will be the dominant theme in medicine.

I read once that we're all just dead stars looking back up at the sky, because everything we're made of, even the haemoglobin in our blood, comes from the moment before a star dies.

life span is determined by a fixed amount of metabolic activity: eat less, slow your metabolism, and you may live longer.

Why is my skull covered with hair? To make it look like my genitals?

natural selection," not only changes in individual species

Sir, married or unmarried, all women bleed.

In all this flurry of false scientism, the central question went unaddressed: if the possession of a penis and outsize brain were the distinguishing marks of the lords of creation, why was the world not rules by whales?

women are the race itself, the strong primary sex, and man the biological afterthought.

For, as scientists acknowledge, "women are the race itself, the strong primary sex, and man the biological afterthought."1

Biology The film turns out to be about bees. It is a film about a bee center. How crap is this going to be? An hour later That was the best thing I have seen for ages. We made Miss Wilson rewind the bit where the two queens were having a bitch fight.

Epidemics stop only when the microbes get disgusted with their toxins.

scar tissue was the strongest tissue in the human body.

I do hope I wasn't born in some dreadful mitochondrion which lives in some horrible isolated human host on a lonely planet like yours.

I felt so insufferably alone. I remembered Miss Myra Turnbull telling us once that this desperate need we have to belong to someone goes back to our earliest forebears, the lowest form of animal life, the amoeba, each individual particle of which has to be joined to other particles to make a whole. Then

If diet and exercise didn't explain the findings, then what about genetics?