Biology Quotes

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...

In real life there is no such person as the average man. There are only particular men, women and ch...

It has been demonstrated that a species of penicillium produces in culture a very powerful antibacte...

Similarities are read into nature by our nervous system, and so are structurally less fundamental th...

Chloroplasts bear chlorophyll; they give the green world its color, and they carry out the business ...

This had not endeared him to exobiologists such as Dr Perera, who took exactly the opposite view. To...

Some believe what separates men from animals is our ability to reason. Others say it’s language or r...

In Galapagos, as elsewhere, things of the mind, including intellectual ramifications from evolutiona...

If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every livin...

As the physicist Paul Davies puts it, 'If everything needs everything else, how did the communities ...

I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biol...

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

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

In the absence of data, we will always make up stories. In fact, the need to make up a story, especi...

Not untill all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son. But in ...

And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.

The same few dozen organic molecules are used over and over again in biology for the widest variety ...

When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There ...

If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but...

All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is th...

History is biology's dumping ground

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different di...

We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced t...

A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, o...

It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nat...

I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of H. Spencer's excellent expression of 'the s...

The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, en...

A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variet...

If about a dozen genera of birds had become extinct or were unknown, who would have ventured to have...

In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based ...

One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the s...

Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of...

In the future I see open fields for more important researches. Psychology will be securely based on ...

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, an...

But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the ...

If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been forme...

None can reply - all seems eternal now. The wilderness has a mysterious tongue, which teaches awful ...

Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one aft...

Each species may have had its origin in a single pair, or individual, where an individual was suffic...

Were these boys in their right minds? Here were two boys with good intellect, one eighteen and one n...

Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful...

In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels

I find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation; our appearance in the world; should be the cul...

For humans—trapped in biology—there was no mercy: we lived a while, we fussed around for a bit and d...

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved...

Biology is destiny only for girls.

Quick dinner with ... Ang [Lee] and his wife Jane who's visiting with the children for a while. We t...

Birth after birth the line unchanging runs,And fathers live transmitted in their sons;Each passing y...

I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to...

The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to ...

The beauty in the genome is of course that it's so small. The human genome is only on the order of a...

In order to approximate those shapes and attitudes which are considered normal and desirable, both s...

Individual humans are not super, but the organism of which we are all tiny cellular parts is most ce...

Fleshers used to spin fantasies about aliens arriving to ‘conquer’ Earth, to steal their ‘precious’ ...

God is an energy, rather than an anthropomorphic being, and God's language is biology. Red blood cel...

We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the pu...

The Earth Speaks, clearly, distinctly, and, in many of the realms of Nature, loudly, to William Jenn...

I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other s...

No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man...

Quite recently the human descent theory has been stigmatized as the 'gorilla theory of human ancestr...

Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion during which the matter ...

If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can...

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...