Biology Quotes - Page 2

But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.

Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.

The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every other branch of the life sciences.

Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.

Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality.

Eugene Wigner wrote a famous essay on the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences. He meant physics, of course. There is only one thing which is more unreasonable than the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in physics, and this is the unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics in biology.

There's biology in everything, even when you're feeling spiritual.

Your biography becomes your biology.

Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.

We must [it has been arued] go beyond reductionism to a holistic recognition that biology and culture interpenetrate in an inextricable manner.

DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

Paradoxically, it has turned out that game theory is more readily applied to biology than to the field of economic behavior for which it was originally designed

Most likely, logic is capable of justifying mathematics to no greater extent than biology is capable of justifying life.

Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.

We reject creationism because there is no evidence to support it. By contrast, the notion that biology is at least partially the basis of gender is an empirically supportable, and even well-supported, proposition. The gender scholars reject it on ideological, not evidentiary, grounds.

In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end.

I'm enjoying my life, post-menopause, so much. It's just so great to grow into yourself, and not be bothered with all that tyranny of biology.

I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

Ubiquity must never be mistaken for biology.

It's bad biology to rob nonhuman animals of their emotional lives.

The supersession of dualism in biology begins to occur in this science at the moment when the ‘time’ factor is taken into consideration.

Evolution makes biology make sense. And if you don't teach your students the evolutionary core of biology, you're making it harder for them.

We can truly see that consciousness is operating creatively even in biology, even in the evolution of species.

We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such diverse fields as geology, paleontology, biogeography, comparative anatomy and physiology, molecular biology, genetics, and many more.

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.