Quotes About Biology

Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole.

I have always felt sympathy towards the biologists who accept to debate creationists. Now I also understand them better; one can fight opinions, not articles of faith.

Tell him,' the woman said with a mocking smile, 'tell him that what he sees is the creature's member entering the body of its mate, doing what men and women must do ...

The day life appeared on Earth, death appeared with it.

In discussing the so-called biological origins of male dominance, the boys can afford to compare themselves to baboons and insects: they are writing books or teaching in universities when they do it. A Harvard professor does not refuse tenure because a baboon has never been granted it.

Cancer - a more or less permanent traffic jam in the body.

the fibrous tongue is actually the strongest muscle per inch in the body; if it were the size of a biceps, you could pick up a car with it.

The symptom of love is when some of the chemicals inside you go bad. So there must be something in love because your chemicals do tell you something.

Is DNA destiny?

Over the next 400 million years, the cyanobacteria—taking in carbon dioxide and giving back oxygen—turned the sky from

As the biologist Richard Dawkins has observed repeatedly, the only natural process we know of that could produce a being capable of designing things is evolution.

APERITIVE  (APE'RITIVE)   adj.[from aperio, Lat. to open.]That which has the quality of opening the excrementious passages of the body.

Recent study of beetle digestive tracts has found more than 650 distinct yeasts, at least 200 of which were previously unidentified

The hormonal imbalance is actually fertility. Fertility is the change. That's when a woman loses herself.

Okay, back to business. Billy grins, leaning back against the cushions. Give me two more characteristics of living things. I'll give you a hint: you left out the most fun one. Fun one? Im picturing the textbook, responsiveness, growth, complex organizations, metabolism, responsiveness... Oh! I hit Billy. You are such a perv! Who me? What are you talking about? The most fun one? Reproduction? Hey, even microorganisms gotta have fun, right?

What's life? Metabolism? That's what it is for the bugs.

As a bio major, I figured free will meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around in a way that felt like choosing but was actually the dance of little gears--neurons and hormones bubbling up into decisions like clockwork. You don't use your body; it uses you.

I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people.

peeps cant turn into anything smaller than what they are. where would the extra mass go

We become what we become not only through our DNA or only through our environment, but through their interaction.

Krebs cycle, discovered in 1937 by Hans Krebs but invented over millions of years of evolution at the dawn of life. It is the eight-stroke chemical reaction that turns fuel into energy in the process of metabolism that is essential to all life, from bacteria to redwoods.

evolutionary psychologists have got it right. We are evolved beings and therefore our psychology will have to be understood in terms of natural selection, among other factors.

The human microbiome in our gut, mouth, skin, and elsewhere, harbors three thousand kinds of bacteria with 3 million distinct genes. (Our own cells struggle by on only eighteen thousand genes or so.)

Most educated people are aware that we are the outcome of nearly 4 billion years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think that humans are somehow the culmination. Our sun, however, is less than halfway through its life span. It will not be humans who watch the sun's demise, 6 billion years from now. Any creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae.ad