Biology Quotes

Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress ...

A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individu...

The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvary...

Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of...

When one ponders on the tremendous journey of evolution over the past three billion years or so, the...

It necessarily follows that chance alone is at the source of every innovation, and of all creation i...

Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a s...

Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the do...

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose...

...if an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and...

Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is bio...

Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.

Sex in social mammals is generally carried out in public, before the gazes of other members of the t...

I believed that it might be pulling these different impressions of itself from my mind and projectin...

I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, ye...

Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed:It is safe, and you can't get ...

There are species that retain their characteristics even in conditions that are relatively different...

I thought the fart was a human thing. It's something to do with like, arse cheeks, or whatever.

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in...

Love is poetry plus biology.

As a young boy, I was obsessed with endangered species and the extinct species that men killed off. ...

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatur...

The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high ...

All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboratio...

Branches or types are characterized by the plan of their structure,Classes, by the manner in which t...

The biological equipment of a man rigidly restricts the field in which he can serve.

The male frog, in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attrac...

Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, a...

Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes—circumstance...

Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and establi...

I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals” (so-called,) ...

Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together ...

...because the great beauty of embryo development, the bit that human beings find so hard to grasp, ...

TP53 seems to encode the greater good, like a suicide pill in the mouth of a soldier that dissolves ...

The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene

The virus altered the the eye of the beholder. That this change came at the expense of the beheld su...

Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we’re made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dio...

As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and persona...

Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move flue...

Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase.

Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the st...

The woman who later became his wife was sleeping in his bed, her face buried in the pillows and her ...

I'm doing now with cornets exactly what I used to do with trilobites: measuring, analyzing and catal...

Some people with Tourette's have flinging tics- sudden, seemingly motiveless urges or compulsions to...

If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us ...

Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.

I approach the creation-evolution dispute not as a scientist but as a problem of law, which means am...

Biochemists assume that the three cellular kingdoms evolved from a single common ancestor, because t...

(Evolution) general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which ...

It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and ...

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future. T...

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the ...

A biochemist colleague has kindly provided me with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, and enough hydroqu...

A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology w...

I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, lik...

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. Duri...

A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of re...

... the reason why we find some things intuitively easy to grasp and others hard, is that our brains...

What, after all, is so special about genes? The answer is that they are replicators. The laws of phy...

All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities

The essential quality that an entity needs, if it is to become an effective gene vehicle, is this. I...

We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.

That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunch...

The offspring cannot rely on its parents for disinterested guidance. One expects the offspring to be...

We wish to discuss a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid. (D.N.A.). This structure ha...

If, again, the most superficial introspection teaches the physiologist that his conscious life is de...

If, again, the most superficial introspection teaches the physiologist that his conscious life is de...

If, again, the most superficial introspection teaches the physiologist that his conscious life is de...

If, again, the most superficial introspection teaches the physiologist that his conscious life is de...

If, again, the most superficial introspection teaches the physiologist that his conscious life is de...

If, again, the most superficial introspection teaches the physiologist that his conscious life is de...

If, again, the most superficial introspection teaches the physiologist that his conscious life is de...

If, again, the most superficial introspection teaches the physiologist that his conscious life is de...

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of th...

When these flies were put together in all-male groups they formed long, moving chains resembling con...

Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God".

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different...

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.

People, as curious primates, dote on concrete objects that can be seen and fondled. God dwells among...

This new consensus seemed so compelling that Ernst Mayr, the dean of modern Darwinians, opened the a...

Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your...

The idea of decimation as a lottery converts the new iconography of the Burgess Shale into a radical...

The stuff of life turned out to be not a quivering, glowing, wondrous gel but a contraption of tiny ...

The typical imperative from biology is not "Thou shalt... ," but "If ... then ... else.

The difference between bush and ladder also allows us to put a lid on a fruitless and boring debate....

Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspirin...

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as fir...

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be ...

Marian’s eyes absolutely blaze. To meet them is to have a shock of contact as if they were electrica...

Even if we have a reliable criterion for detecting design, and even if that criterion tells us that ...

Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committin...

To establish evolutionary interrelatedness invariably requires exhibiting similarities between organ...

Even if the intelligent design of some structure has been established, it still is a separate questi...

Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what desig...

Whenever explaining an event, we must choose from three competing modes of explanation. These are re...

The fundamental claim of intelligent design is straightforward and easily intelligible: namely, ther...

The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science ...

Of the contributions made during the essayist period three call for notice: Weismann deserves mentio...

It was in the attempt to ascertain the interrelationships between species that experiments n genetic...