Biology Quotes

Discover the best quotes about Biology. This collection showcases wisdom and insights on Biology from various authors and personalities.

One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.
Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution have we had grounds for thinking that the powers held traditionally to be the exclusive property of the gods might one day be ours. . . .
In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels
DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.
The biological equipment of a man rigidly restricts the field in which he can serve.
We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.
If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?
Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
We all know interspecies romance is weird.
To be honest, as a species we may not live long enough to ever understand the true reality of the universe. But as the foundation of consciousness lies within the domain of biology one day we shall know all there is to know about it.
Biology without selfishness, is nothing but fiction.
When I am fully immersed in my work of nourishing humanity, it fills my head with all kinds of feel-good chemicals, such as endorphins, serotonin and dopamine. Problems occur during the brief intervals between the finishing of one work and the beginning of another. During these intervals, my biology starts to get filled with stress hormones cortisol and adrenalin, that worsens my OCD. That is why, I can't sit still even a day after I finish writing a book. Because if I do, my OCD begins to suffocate me inside my head. Hence, as soon as I deliver a work, I have to start working on my next scientific literature.
Stop talking about —rape— and start talking about —sex", and within a few decades India will attain the true mindset to prevent sexual assaults.
The complex organic device that creates and thereafter drives consciousness, is the human brain. Consciousness evolved hand in hand with the evolution of the human brain throughout a time span of six million years.
Without the harmonious electrochemical activity of all the brain structure, the very thing which we call mind, would suddenly disappear from the face of earth.
Neuron is to Consciousness, what D.N.A. is to Life. Thus, Biology of Mind is to the twenty-first century, what Biology of Life was to the twentieth century.
Our present intricate humanly consciousness evolved after a long journey of struggle. And the beauty of natural selection is that our struggle against nature made us worthy of being rewarded with the 3 lbs. lump of highly advanced biological computer by our Mother Nature herself.
When Mother Nature speaks, even the Gods hold silence.
Biology is run by intricate cellular mechanisms. Cellular mechanisms are run by Nature. Thus, the more we attempt to understand Nature, the more we get closer to our existential properties.