Biology Quotes

“Paleontology”

“Biology is Engineering.”

“Today, nearly all biologists acknowledge that evolution is a fact.”

“You can’t fight biology. Only push at the rules, here and there.”

“Purpose has no place in biology, but history has no meaning without it.”

“For a biologist the alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.”

“Today, the central and still fascinating questions for biologists concern the mechanisms by which evolution occurs.”

“The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.”

“No biologist today would think of submitting a paper entitled "New evidence for evolution;" it simply has not been an issue for a century.”

“For me biology is my life, my motive to life and is in my blood and even my soul.let is way to live. It's a connection between you and your God.”

“[A]ll of modern biology is an affirmation of this relatedness of the many species of living things and of their gradual divergence from one another over the course of time.”

“Posing questions about the living world and seeking answers through scientific inquiry are the central activities of biology, the scientific study of life. Biologists’ questions can be ambitious.”

“When you study science, and especially these realms of the biology of what makes us human, what's clear is that every time you find out something, that brings up ten new questions, and half of those are better questions than you started with.”

“Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile of sundry facts -- some of them interesting or curious but making no meaningful picture as a whole.”

“Complexity has always been difficult to resolve and to understand. Evolutionary biologists were among the first scientists to recognize this problem, when they dug their way toward new theories about evolution. They discovered that matter does not lack purpose.”

“What is found in biology is mechanisms, mechanisms built with chemical components and that are often modified by other, later, mechanisms added to the earlier ones. While Occam's razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology.”

“There are two kinds of biologists, those who are looking to see if there is one thing that can be under stood, and those who keep saying it is very complicated and that nothing can be understood... You must study the simplest system you think has the properties you are interested in.”

“Despite the beliefs and teachings of religion and psychology, impulses are biological and psychic directional signals to nudge the individual toward his or her greatest opportunities for expression and development privately, and also to insure the person's contribution to mass social reality.”

“Biology is not physics, because organisms are such complex physical objects, and sociology is not biology because human societies are made by self-conscious organisms. By pretending to a kind of knowledge that it cannot achieve, social science can only engender the scorn of natural scientists and the cynicism of the humanists.”

“More attention to the History of Science is needed, as much by scientists as by historians, and especially by biologists, and this should mean a deliberate attempt to understand the thoughts of the great masters of the past, to see in what circumstances or intellectual milieu their ideas were formed, where they took the wrong turning or stopped short on the right track.”