Quotes About Biology

Life is the division of human cells, a process which begins at conception.

The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.

If life really depends on each gene being as unique as it appears to be, then it is too unique to come into being by chance mutations.

The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life form on Earth descended from Martians.

The discovery of any kind of life [in Space] at all would be a tremendous watershed moment in biology, as well as all of science.

In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its place in the grand story of life?

Studying cancer could provide huge insights for astrobiologists into the nature of life itself.

All life depends on organic reactions. A favorite saying.

The surviving intelligent life form on Earth is not going to be carbon-based; it's going to be silicon-based.

Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense, humans have emancipated themselves from Darwinian selection.

I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I represent, or our children represent.

NASA scientists have discovered a new form of life, unfortunately, it won't date them either.

Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.

The more details we learn about the chemical basis of life and the intricacy of the genetic code, the more unbelievable the standard historical account becomes

It's actually very hard to find an area of the economy that doesn't fundamentally change in the measure that we are able to read and write life code.

This fertilized ovum, known as a zygote, is a large diploid cell that is the beginning, or primordium, of a human being.

The probability of life ever evolving on Earth was slim to none. It's insane that we're all walking around and talking.

Why does everybody agree that atmospheric oxygen comes from life, but no one speaks about the other gases coming from life?

The demands of standing, walking, and running have literally shaped the entire human body from head to toe.

Evolution is amoral. Just because something is natural doesn't make it morally good ("the naturalistic fallacy"). Conversely, just because something is morally desirable doesn't make it true ("the moralistic fallacy").

Far more calories are used to heat the body than to move it.

thyroid hormone increases the rates of most chemical reactions in all cells, thus helping to set the tempo of bodily activity.

The science of human physiology attempts to explain the specific characteristics and mechanisms of the human body that make it a living being.