Quotes About Biology

The chimpanzees could tear me apart in no time. They're many times stronger than we are.

If you're dealing with an assembly of biological systems, you can bring the things together, but you can't connect them.

For a male and female to live continuously together is biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.

horse's body parts are called its

the act of vomiting deserves your respect. It's an orchestral event of the gut.

In the words of the late Francis Crick...You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. (13)

I challenge you to find a more innocuous sentence containing the words sperm, suction, swallow, and any homophone of seaman. And then call me up on the homophone and read it to me.

Meaning 'by way of the anus'. 'Per Annum', with two n's, means 'yearly'. The correct answer to the question, 'What is the birthrate per anum?' is zero (one hopes).

think of it.' said Robert Rosenbluth, a doctor whose acquaintance i made at the start of this book. 'no engineer could design something as multifunctional and fine tuned as an anus. to call someone an asshole is really bragging him up.

The human head is of the same approximate size and weight as a roaster chicken.

This is what primate sex hormones do: "They make individuals perceive other individuals as more attractive than they'd normally perceive them." Hormones are nature's three bottles of beer.

This book is a salute to the scientists and the surgeons, running along in the wake of combat, lab coats flapping. Building safer tanks, waging war on filth flies. Understanding turkey vultures. T

On top of its other charms, the maggot breathes through its ass. It

As brain cells die from oxygen starvation, euphoria sets in, and one last, grand erection.)

Cheese crumbs spread in front of a copulating pair of rats may distract the female, but not the male.

There wasn't an anhydrous lacrimal gland in the room...

How is it that we find Christina Aguilera more interesting than the inside of our own bodies?

Stanford University suggests that a two-year mission to Mars would have about the same effect on one's skeleton. Would an astronaut returning from Mars run the risk of stepping out of the capsule into Earth gravity and snapping a bone?

We are all nature, all made of the same basic materials, with the same basic needs. We are no different, on a very basic level, from the ducks and the mussels and last week's coleslaw. Thus we should respect Nature, and when we die, we should give ourselves back to the earth.

Your genes want you to get pregnant, and hormones are their magic wand.

As brain cells die from oxygen starvation, euphoria sets in, and one last, grand erection.) Space

Pretty much any amino acid arrangement can be hydrolyzed, including those of the recyclable that dares not speak its name. A four-person crew will, over the course of three years, generate somewhere in the neighborhood of a thousand pounds of feces. In the ominous words of sixties space nutritionist Emil Mrak, "The possibility of reuse must be considered." Sometime

What sort of person experimentally infests a child with maggots? A confident sort, certainly. A maverick. Someone comfortable with the unpretty facts of biology. Someone who is perhaps himself an unpretty fact of biology.

The human liver is a boss-looking organ.