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At the atomic level, matter does not even exist with certainty; it only exists as a tendency to exist. — Bruce H. Lipton

It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature. — Charles Darwin

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy? — Auguste Comte

The use of thermodynamics in biology has a long history rich in confusion ... — Harold Morowitz

The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology. — John Maynard Smith

Consciousness is the chronic pain of life, and all higher organisms suffer it every waking moment. — David Marusek

Biology keeps culture on a leash, which is why you can't teach a dog to play poker, never mind all those lying paintings. — Gregory Cochran

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. — Ronald A. Fisher

As a chemist, I wanted to ask myself the question frustrated by biology: What is the minimal unit of matter that can undergo Darwinian evolution? — Leroy Cronin

Ugly or beautiful, it is the little creatures that make the world go round. We should celebrate and appreciated them in all their wonderful diversity. — Dave Goulson

how long can we maintain the wall separating the department of biology from the departments of law and political science? — Yuval Noah Harari

Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century. — Ernst W. Mayr

In essence, the science of agronomy is inseparable from biology. — Trofim Lysenko

Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties. — Edmund Beecher Wilson

What least makes a mother is biology. — Oprah Winfrey

One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. — Charles Darwin

Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material. — Jeff Koons

It is an incontrovertible fact that if we want to make progress in basic areas of medicine and biology, we are going to have to use animals. — John O'Keefe

Love, in its purest form, is biology. — Ron Currie Jr.

I think it's reasonable to suppose that one could oscillate between being biologically 20 and biologically 25 indefinitely. — Aubrey De Grey

But I am not those people. I am just the biologist; I don't require any of this to have a deeper meaning. — Jeff VanderMeer

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

Heavy resistance strength training (loads 85% 1RM) appears to evoke significant gains in maximal eccentric muscle strength. — Marco Cardinale

Indeed, if "biology is chemistry with history," as somebody has said, then nature writing is biology with love. — Edward Hoagland

Evolutionarily speaking, love is all about procreation. — Abhijit Naskar

The more you learn the biology behind your every action, emotion and behavior, the better you become at accepting others the way they are. — Abhijit Naskar

Signal transduction science recognizes that the fate and behavior of an organism is directly linked to its perception of the environment. — Bruce H. Lipton

Biology has at least 50 more interesting years. — James D. Watson

Sex is a matter of biology, while gender is a matter of grammar, and there is no earthly reason why sex should be involved in gender distinctions. — R.L. Trask

One of the ultimate challenges for biology is to understand the brain's processing of unconscious and conscious perception, emotion, and empathy. — Eric Kandel

Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect. — Nicholas D. Kristof

National Socialism is applied biology, — Hans Schemm

We argue with our biology, and the result of that argument is civilization. — Charles Siebert

Geology differs from physics, chemistry, and biology in that the possibilities for experiment are limited. — Reinout Willem Van Bemmelen

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

Biology enables, Culture forbids. — Yuval Noah Harari

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow. — Lewis Thomas

I had gone to school to study marine biology. — Skeet Ulrich

I don't believe any scientific field to be superior to another. — Abhijit Naskar

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die. — Stephen Jay Gould

The Cognitive Revolution is accordingly the point when history declared its independence from biology. — Yuval Noah Harari

Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took. — Sam Cooke

The Biology of Belief — Wayne W. Dyer

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

If westerners cannot legitimately study the history of Africa or the Middle East, then only fish can study marine biology. — Bernard Lewis

Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better. — C.J. Cherryh

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient. — Charles Darwin

Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere. — Robert Lanza

Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course. — Asa Gray

Before the girl and the boy tie the knot, they feel like falling in love. And most of them do. Cupid works. Biology demands. And, sociology warrants. — Girdhar Joshi

I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work. — Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Biologically speaking, you are the child of Mother Nature, and neurologically speaking, you are the heirs of immortal bliss. — Abhijit Naskar

The twentieth century showed us the evil face of physics. This century will show us the evil face of biology. — Douglas Preston

The laws of biology are written in the language of diversity. — E. O. Wilson

Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral. — Richard Levins

Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique. — Jared Diamond

Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept. — John Marburger

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

Good biology without good philosophy will be a calamity. — George Will

Very often ambition and entrepreneurial drive, in combination, beat brilliance. — Edward O. Wilson

The cause of nutrition and growth resides not in the organism as a whole but in the separate elementary parts - the cells. — Theodor Schwann

Faith is a natural evolutionary trait of the human mind, selected by Mother Nature as an internal coping-mechanism. — Abhijit Naskar

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

Biologists will teach us that the survival of the species depends on cooperation, not competition. — Robert Holden

I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales. — Arthur Kornberg

Biology is destiny only for girls. — Elizabeth Hardwick

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science. — David Brin

But that was my big moment: I gave a seminar in the biology department at Harvard! I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go. I — Richard Feynman

We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology. — Sam Kean

I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology. — Lars Mikkelsen

The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit, — Brian L. Weiss

Your biography - that is, the experiences that make up your life - becomes your biology. — Caroline Myss

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

In polite society what you say to an attractive woman who is dressed in a way that makes you understand the power of biology is, "You look nice. — Joe R. Lansdale

Biology can be said to define possibilities but not determine them; it is never irrelevant but it is also not determinant. — Cordelia Fine

Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology. — Thomas Cochrane

A cell is regarded as the true biological atom. — George Henry Lewes

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. — Eugenie Scott

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

I've always liked all the sciences, like math, physics and biology. — Sigrid Agren

It's a lot like a biology study date,' I told my reflection nonchalantly. 'Only ... Without the biology and studying.'
Biology study date ... — Becca Fitzpatrick

I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people. — Scott Westerfeld

I have to keep reminding myself
this is not me. It is chemistry. It is biology. It is not who I am. — David Levithan

Soul is nothing but the functional expression of protoplasmic activity in the brain. — Abhijit Naskar

So you're a parasite? We like to think of it as symbiotic, but we can discuss biology another time. — Wesley Chu

The biology of empathy allows us to comprehend our connection to each other, to other living things, and to the physical world that supports life. — George Lakoff

Things to know from books to read — Kip Koehler

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

Teens are by nature, experimental learners. There is no real understanding of biology without the lab ... — Wendy Mogel

Life is chemistry, not biology. — Joey Lawsin

In science, if the last 50 years were the age of physics, the next 50 years will be the age of biology. — William J. Clinton

Biology, list history, is not built with 'if's. — Andrea Moro

Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution. — Kenneth R. Miller

Maybe we're just prisoners of our biology. — Jonathan Kellerman

I think we need to start thinking about grounding our moral systems in our biology. — Frans De Waal

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Water is one of the least understood aspects of biology. — Steven Magee

Discussion is to Christian philosophy what lab work is to the practice of biology. — Kevin J. Corcoran

The systems approach to biology will be the dominant theme in medicine. — Leroy Hood

Human experience is not nest and orderly, ready to be coded into predetermined categories. Real life is messy — Jennifer Gold