597 Quotes About Biology

It’s all biology. If it weren’t for two thousand years of the Christian tradition we wouldn’t think of pretending otherwise…Romance is the true opiate of the masses.

If you look at the evolution of the brain, the logic centers, they were growing at the same time as the creative centers were expanding. And that creates this really potent illusion that you’re not just a bag of chemicals reacting to shit. Which is what you are.

The moral sense perhaps affords the best and highest distinction between man and the lower animals

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

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I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments in the field of molecular genetics in recent years.

Effort has nothing to do with the changes to structure and physiology that develop as a consequence of the intensification of individuation.

Man must have light. He must live in the fierce full constant glare of light, where all shadow will be defined and sharp and unique and personal: the shadow of his own singular rectitude or baseness. All human evils have to come out of obscurity and darkness, where there is nothing to dog man constantly with the shape of his own deformity.

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.