597 Quotes About Biology

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

The question of the position of man, as an animal, has given rise to much disputation, with the result of proving that there is no anatomical or developmental character by which he is more widely distinguished from the group of animals most nearly allied to him, than they are from one another.

What a tragic irony, that the more we understand of biology, the less we have of it to learn from and enjoy. What will be the legacy of this new century - to cherish and to protect Nature or to see butterflies and zebras and much more vanish into legend like the thylacine, moa and dodo?

USA politicians are saying ‘Let’s make America great again’ while destroying the long term health of their citizens with their biologically toxic policies.

Science today is our safest path to knowledge, and wedded to technology it continues to amaze. And yet, too frequently control is confused with understanding, by scientists and the rest of us. Too often what is natural is taken for what is right, complexity simplified into grotesque caricatures, and modesty thrown to the side.

.... by our lofty standards animals are poor liars.

After a big meal, more blood goes to the stomach, less to the brain.

Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song?

Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them. There is no possibility of escaping from this conclusion.